Improve consistency of parsing of psql's magic variables.
For simple boolean variables such as ON_ERROR_STOP, psql has for a long
time recognized variant spellings of "on" and "off" (such as "1"/"0"),
and it also made a point of warning you if you'd misspelled the setting.
But these conveniences did not exist for other keyword-valued variables.
In particular, though ECHO_HIDDEN and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK include "on" and
"off" as possible values, none of the alternative spellings for those were
recognized; and to make matters worse the code would just silently assume
"on" was meant for any unrecognized spelling. Several people have reported
getting bitten by this, so let's fix it. In detail, this patch:
* Allows all spellings recognized by ParseVariableBool() for ECHO_HIDDEN
and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK.
* Reports a warning for unrecognized values for COMP_KEYWORD_CASE, ECHO,
ECHO_HIDDEN, HISTCONTROL, ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK, and VERBOSITY.
* Recognizes all values for all these variables case-insensitively;
previously there was a mishmash of case-sensitive and case-insensitive
behaviors.
Back-patch to all supported branches. There is a small risk of breaking
existing scripts that were accidentally failing to malfunction; but the
consensus is that the chance of detecting real problems and preventing
future mistakes outweighs this.
Branch
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REL9_4_STABLE
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c35249939b3addf8dc2f57d9213e8aeadc7bccd1
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 39 +++++++++++----------
src/bin/psql/command.c | 18 ++++++----
src/bin/psql/settings.h | 14 ++++++++
src/bin/psql/startup.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c | 34 +++++-------------
src/bin/psql/variables.c | 15 +++++---
src/bin/psql/variables.h | 2 +-
7 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
