Re: [HACKERS] psql and libpq fixes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] psql and libpq fixes
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0002102114140.1014-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] psql and libpq fixes  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
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On 2000-02-10, Thomas Lockhart mentioned:

> > > > FYI, the commands are
> > > > \set EXIT_ON_ERROR
> > > > and
> > > > \unset EXIT_ON_ERROR
> > > > It's a normal psql variable, but incidentally the syntax seems kind of
> > > > easy to remember.
> > > Can we change that to the more standard ON_ERROR_STOP?
> 
> Any chance of multi-word options? Like "\set on error stop"?

You can do\set 'some string with any character \t\001\n\n' enabled
but that's a little hard to type. ;)

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