Re: psql \e broken again

>> I like Kevin Brown's suggestion of writing out a temporary .txt file and
>> 'executing' it. It will follow the principle of least suprise for Windows
>> users.
>
> Note that the current default behavior (assuming you've not set EDITOR)
> is "vi foo.txt" which is quite unlikely to be helpful to a Windows user.

works for me :-) but agreed not a good default.

> I'm not sure we need to do the "execute a textfile" bit, but at the very

I don't think that eighter. And also imho the obvious extension would be .sql,
and that might not be registered, or already registered for another not really
wanted sql tool. I think we need or own editor setting, the windows way would be
a private registry setting, but using EDITOR is imho just as good.

> least DEFAULT_EDITOR should probably be "notepad.exe" on Windows.

Yes that would be a sane default on Windows.

Andreas