On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 16:31, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/12/2011 10:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> We could do that, but I think Heikki's idea of adding a comment would
>>> help a lot.
>>
>> +1. Simple, easy, should help significantly.
>>
>> Also, I disagree with the position that the files "aren't SQL files".
>> Sure they are. You'd want them treated as SQL by your editor, for
>> example. So changing the extension is just wrong.
>>
>
> *shrug* ok. Another thought I had was to have the file raise an error and
> have that filtered out by the extension mechanism. But I'm not sure if it's
> worth the trouble.
How about adding something like
-- \\psql_hates_this
-- rest of comment
and then at least have new versions of psql find that and stop
processing the file with a more useful error at that point? Or maybe
that's overengineering..
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