Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom, would you show an example of the change in behavior? I didn't > > understand the details. > > In CVS tip: > > regression=# \N `touch wrong1` \i `touch wrong2` > Invalid command \N. Try \? for help. > : No such file or directory > regression=# > > Both wrong1 and wrong2 are created. Thomer originally asserted that > wrong1 shouldn't have been created, ie, we shouldn't have tried to > evaluate the backticked "argument" to \N. I further suggest that it's > not a good idea to even try to process the \i command. I'd prefer to > see something like > > regression=# \N `touch wrong1` \i `touch wrong2` > Invalid command \N. Try \? for help. > Ignoring junk "`touch wrong1` \i `touch wrong2`" > regression=#
So if a backslash command fails we discard the rest of the line? I guess. How did user data ever get to psql in this way? -- 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 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
