On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote: > On tor, 2009-11-26 at 22:59 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: >> ISTM that if you run psql with "-f -", you shouldn't expect to get an >> interactive shell. Rather, you should expect psql to do whatever it >> normally does when given -f somefilename, except using stdin rather >> than the file. After all, you could have left out -f altogether if >> you'd wanted the interactive behavior. But then IJWH. > > But by that logic, psql < file should also set interactive mode.
Those two cases are not symmetrical. If you're reading from something other than a terminal, you certainly don't want interactive mode. If you ARE reading from a terminal, you might nevertheless want non-interactive mode. And you CERTAINLY might want -1 when reading a pipe, as when you do this: ssh otherhost pg_dump | psql -1 -f - Currently, this silently fails to deliver the expected behavior. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
