Re: psql treat backslash which is not the first character in the input line as meta-command

Hi

It is not bug. Upi can you a backslash commands for entering query

postgres=# select 10 \g ~foo
postgres=# \! cat foo
?column?
----------
10
(1 row)

postgres=# select 10 as xx \gset
postgres=# \echo :xx
10

regards

Pavel Stehule

2014-10-29 10:09 GMT+01:00 chenhj <chjischj(at)163(dot)com>:

> Hi,all
>
> psql treat backslash which is not the first character in the input line
> as meta-command,and failed to execute the next query.
> It seems to be a bug.
>
> Sample1:
> postgres=# select \1 set c2=c1%3 ;
> Invalid command \1. Try \? for help.
> postgres-# select 1;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "select"
> LINE 2: select 1;
> ^
>
>
> Sample2:
> postgres=# a \l
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access
> privileges
>
> -----------+--------+-----------+------------+------------+-------------------
> postgres | chenhj | SQL_ASCII | C | C |
> template0 | chenhj | SQL_ASCII | C | C | =c/chenhj
> +
> | | | | |
> chenhj=CTc/chenhj
> template1 | chenhj | SQL_ASCII | C | C | =c/chenhj
> +
> | | | | |
> chenhj=CTc/chenhj
> (6 rows)
>
> postgres-# select 1;
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "a"
> LINE 1: a
> ^
>
> Regards,
> Chen Huajun
>