Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall
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Msg-id 194b01c36070$d918f140$2800a8c0@mars
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In response to Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Change Request: \pset pager off in pg_dumpall
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> > Your pg_dump's actually invoke the pager?  Are you manually starting
> > psql, then doing \i dumpfile?  Why would you do that rather than psql
> > template1 <dumpfile?
> Because I'm a dork :-).
>
> Seriously, sometimes it's useful.

The most useful reason (and I wish you could turn it on with psql < file) is
the line number in the file where any errors occur.

(TODO item?)

Chris



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