Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop

2014-02-28 22:38 GMT+01:00 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> >> Well, then we just have to add more info to --help
>
> > +1 for at least doing that. I found it annoying just the other day not
> > to find it in plsql's --help output, in a moment of brain fade when I
> > forgot how to spell it. So it's not just beginners who can benefit, it's
> > people like me whose memory occasionally goes awry.
>
> No objection in principle, but what are we talking about exactly?
> Adding some new backslash command that lists all the variables that have
> special meanings? I'm not sure that the main --help output is the place
> for this, because that only covers psql's command line switches (and
> is plenty long enough already).
>

Hard to say -

a special long option in "General option" can be clean.

or new section "Tips"

Tips:
-v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 stops on first error

>
> regards, tom lane
>