Re: Proposal: psql force prompting on notty - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

No, just getting to it now.  Sorry.

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Michael Mauger wrote:
> --- Michael Mauger <mmaug@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > Michael Mauger writes:
> > > >
> > > > Emacs is not a Cygwin (Un*x emulation on Windows) executable (like
> > > > psql is)
> > > 
> > > Why don't you use the native Windows version of psql?
> > > 
> > 
> > The Cygwin setup program makes pre-built binaries of postgres 
> > readily available on Windows.  (In fact, using this version is 
> > encouraged in the Postgres for Windows installation notes.)  A 
> > native Windows version would not work either since the isatty() 
> > implementation there will only recognize a Command Prompt 
> > window as a tty.
> > 
> 
> Are there further concerns with this patch?
> 
> --- pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/startup.c    29 Sep 2003 18:21:33 -0000    1.80
> +++ pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/startup.c    01 Nov 2003 06:10:42 -0000
> @@ -322,6 +322,7 @@
>          {"field-separator", required_argument, NULL, 'F'},
>          {"host", required_argument, NULL, 'h'},
>          {"html", no_argument, NULL, 'H'},
> +        {"interactive", no_argument, NULL, 'I'},
>          {"list", no_argument, NULL, 'l'},
>          {"no-readline", no_argument, NULL, 'n'},
>          {"output", required_argument, NULL, 'o'},
> @@ -352,7 +353,7 @@
> 
>      memset(options, 0, sizeof *options);
> 
> -    while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv,
> "aAc:d:eEf:F:h:Hlno:p:P:qR:sStT:uU:v:VWxX?",
> +    while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv,
> "aAc:d:eEf:F:h:HIlno:p:P:qR:sStT:uU:v:VWxX?",
>                              long_options, &optindex)) != -1)
>      {
>          switch (c)
> @@ -395,7 +396,10 @@
>              case 'H':
>                  pset.popt.topt.format = PRINT_HTML;
>                  break;
> +            case 'I':
> +                pset.notty = 0;
> +                break;
>              case 'l':
>                  options->action = ACT_LIST_DB;
>                  break;
> --- pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/help.c    02 Oct 2003 06:39:31 -0000    1.81
> +++ pgsql-server/src/bin/psql/help.c    01 Nov 2003 06:29:50 -0000
> @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
>      puts(_("  -a              echo all input from script"));
>      puts(_("  -e              echo commands sent to server"));
>      puts(_("  -E              display queries that internal commands
> generate"));
> +    puts(_("  -I              force interactive prompting for input"));
>      puts(_("  -q              run quietly (no messages, only query
> output)"));
>      puts(_("  -o FILENAME     send query results to file (or |pipe)"));
>      puts(_("  -n              disable enhanced command line editing
> (readline)"));
> 
> 
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