On lör, 2011-11-26 at 22:36 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> There is a long-standing oddity in psql that running
>
> psql -f foo.sql
>
> returns error messages with file name and line number, like
>
> psql:foo.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo"
>
> but running
>
> psql < foo.sql does not. I suggest we change the latter to print
>
> psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo"
It turns out that running
psql -f -
already used to print
psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR: blah
except that it got broken between 8.4 and 9.0 (commit b291c0fb), and now
prints
psql:-:1: ERROR: blah
I'll try to find a way to fix that and integrate it with the change I'm
proposing.
