Re: InitPostgres and flatfiles question

Hi,

Tom Lane wrote:
> Hm, that's an interesting point. psql's -c just shoves its whole
> argument string at the backend in one PQexec(), instead of dividing
> at semicolons as psql does with normal input. And so it winds up as
> a single transaction because postgres.c doesn't force a transaction
> commit until the end of the querystring. But that's not a "transaction
> block" in the normal sense and so it doesn't trigger the
> PreventTransactionChain defense in CREATE DATABASE and elsewhere.

Is there a good reason to not let psql -c behave exactly like psql from
STDIN? I found this exception to be quite confusing. Of course that
could break compatibility with certain scripts, but can this be fixed
without doing so?

Regards

Markus