On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:21 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, David G. Johnston wrote: > > > You seem to need to distinguish between the command line options to psql > > and the meta commands that can be used within a script that is being > > executed by psql. > > David, > > I'm running psql in a shell buffer within emacs, not at the shell > prompt. The entire script is: > I'd say that emacs is doing something funky then. Running your script using: psql <<SQL [...] SQL (or psql -f ...) at a bash prompt should result in the expected outcome. Assuming that is indeed the case someone else would need to comment on the emacs interaction. David J.