Re: psql terminates on first error

> On 02/03/2023 12:53 CET Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> While trying to transfer data from one instance to another using
> pg_dumpall and psql, the psql stopped on first error, causing pg_dumpall
> to terminate as well.
>
> This behaviour was seen on Windows (EDB installer), but is different on
> Linux.

Database on Windows and client on Linux? What's the error and is it the same
on Linux? Is there even an error on Linux?

> Only when using an option -c "\set ON_ERROR_STOP false" (plus -f - of
> course to continue reading) psql continued after first error.

Do you use PowerShell and pipe pg_dumpall into psql? The first thing that
comes to my mind when reading Postgres+Windows is that PowerShell up to
version 5.1 converts stdout to UTF-16LE. This already tripped me up in
past with pg_dump and psql.

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Erik