Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories
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Msg-id 473B5825.2000007@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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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?)
>   

I don't see why not.

cheers

andrew


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