| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Harald Fuchs <hari(dot)fuchs(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql scripting tutorials |
| Date: | 2008-09-12 07:22:02 |
| Message-ID: | 48CA189A.1050006@gmx.net |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Doesn't say about variable expansion ... And it seems to be in a
> different realm, because the point is that the command is going to have
> a single destination (either \-processing or sending it to the server).
>
> Is psql being just lazy here and avoiding parsing the command?
The intent is to leave open an avenue to pass a command to the server
without any interference from psql at all. I have never been very
comfortable with overloading -c for that purpose, and it certainly
confuses users from time to time. But that's the idea anyway.
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