Re: [BUGS] ";" no longer allowed to terminate a command beginningwith "\"

2000-06-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Sean Kelly writes: > Just would like some "is this a bug or a feature"-style > clarification on this please. It was an undocumented "fact" that didn't work very well or consistently, but it will be back. > In PostgreSQL v6.5 you used to be able to end a command issued to > "psql" st

[BUGS] ";" no longer allowed to terminate a command beginning with "\"

2000-06-24 Thread Sean Kelly
Hi there, Just would like some "is this a bug or a feature"-style clarification on this please. In PostgreSQL v6.5 you used to be able to end a command issued to "psql" starting with a backslash "\" with a semicolon ";", eg. bookmarks=> \d sites_tbl; Table= sites_tbl ... TAB