Re: psql terminates on first error

Am 02.03.23 um 13:32 schrieb Erik Wienhold:
>> On 02/03/2023 12:53 CET Holger Jakobs <holger(at)jakobs(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> While trying to transfer data from one instance to another using
>> pg_dumpall and psql, the psql stopped on first error, causing pg_dumpall
>> to terminate as well.
>>
>> This behaviour was seen on Windows (EDB installer), but is different on
>> Linux.
> Database on Windows and client on Linux? What's the error and is it the same
> on Linux? Is there even an error on Linux?

Both on Windows or both on Linux

>> Only when using an option -c "\set ON_ERROR_STOP false" (plus -f - of
>> course to continue reading) psql continued after first error.
> Do you use PowerShell and pipe pg_dumpall into psql? The first thing that
> comes to my mind when reading Postgres+Windows is that PowerShell up to
> version 5.1 converts stdout to UTF-16LE. This already tripped me up in
> past with pg_dump and psql.
No, it was in cmd.exe or in bash
> --
> Erik

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