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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: ";" no longer allowed to terminate a command beginning with "\"
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0006250307240.348-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to ";" no longer allowed to terminate a command beginning with "\"  (Sean Kelly <S.Kelly@newcastle.ac.uk>)
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Sean Kelly writes:

>     Just would like some "is this a bug or a feature"-style
> clarification on this please.

It was an undocumented "fact" that didn't work very well or consistently,
but it will be back.

>     In PostgreSQL v6.5 you used to be able to end a command issued to
> "psql" starting with a backslash "\" with a semicolon ";", eg.

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