On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote: > There is a long-standing oddity in psql that running > > psql -f foo.sql > > returns error messages with file name and line number, like > > psql:foo.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo" > > but running > > psql < foo.sql does not. I suggest we change the latter to print > > psql:<stdin>:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "foo" > > Other examples for the use of the spelling "<stdin>" in this context > include gcc and slonik. > > Error messages printed in interactive mode will not be affected, of > course. > > Patch attached.
Seems like a good idea to me.
Naysayers can always make a case for backwards-compatibility, or not breaking the scripts written with the existing behaviour in mind. Do our docs have anything to say about scripts executed from stdin?
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