Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In thinking about it, I don't see how we can ignore .psqlrc if it has > > autocommit set to off. Imagine I am in psql and I do '\i file', and it > > works, so I code up psql -c in a script, and it doesn't work --- would > > be quite strange. > > What's your point? "psql -c '\i file'" doesn't work either. > > Surely you don't want to have to put back all those SET AUTOCOMMITs again.
No. > Yeah, it's a bit warty, but psql -c is inherently different from a psql > script. IMHO it's not reasonable to make (shell) scripts using psql -c How is it different, except for having no prompt? I never assumed it would behave differently. > have to explicitly state the obvious, which is that they'd like their > command committed. They can't do that from in the file anymore (command-line arg?), or will we have backslash commands for autocommit off? (Yikes, a new backslash command, or two?) -- 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 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])