Re: Making psql error out on output failures - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

    David Zhang wrote:

> Yes, I agree with you. For case 2 "select repeat('111', 1000000) \g
> /mnt/ramdisk/file", it can be easily fixed with more accurate error
> message similar to pg_dump, one example could be something like below.
> But for case 1 "psql -d postgres  -At -c "select repeat('111', 1000000)"
> > /mnt/ramdisk/file" , it may require a lot of refactoring work.

I don't quite see why you make that distinction? The relevant bits of
code are common, it's all the code in src/fe_utils/print.c called
from PrintQuery().

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