Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > Still, it looks like it would be relatively easy to suppress evaluation > > of backticked arguments once we recognize that the backslash command has > > failed, and I would say that that's a reasonable change to make on the > > principle of least surprise. > > On looking at this further, I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea for > a failed backslash command to cause the rest of the input line to be > discarded. In the existing coding, if we find another backslash we'll > try to execute another backslash command, but that seems rather > considerably likely to be the Wrong Thing instead of the Right Thing.
Tom, would you show an example of the change in behavior? I didn't understand the details. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
