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

2014-02-28 23:01 GMT+01:00 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:

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> On 02/28/2014 04:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
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>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
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>>> 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?
>>
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> That's a pretty good idea, especially if we give that command a command
> line option too, so something like
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> psql --special-variables
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> would run that command and exit.
>

it can be second one option.

Pavel

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> Maybe I'm over-egging the pudding a bit ;-)
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> cheers
>
> andrew
>