On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:15:20PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Letting psql execute a script file that is really a directory
> > doesn't complain at all:
> >
> > $ psql -f /tmp
> >
> > Should we do some kind of stat() before opening the file and abort
> > if it's a directory?
>
> Actually anything other than a plain file, right? (Do we really
> want to be able to psql -f a_pipe?)
Yes, I have seen people use just this technique.
Cheers,
David.
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