Oh, yes, sorry, I was confusing psql -c and -f. -c is clearly different.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> It's different because it's explicitly designed for convenient execution
> of a single command. Thus, autocommit off would be useless and
> counterproductive. Also, since the -c string is fed to PQexec as a
> single query (again different from the psql stdin behavior), if you do
> put multiple commands into -c then you get them executed as a single
> transaction anyway. So you do not need or want .psqlrc modifying the
> behavior in either case.
>
> One of the reasons for taking autocommit control out of the backend and
> pushing it up to the client level is exactly to make it feasible to take
> these sorts of application-level considerations into account when
> choosing the behavior.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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