On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at> wrote:
> David G. Johnston wrote: > >> It works for me on Linux with 9.6.3 psql: > > > > Except you haven't recreated the scenario I presented. > > > > You only are involving a single script and that script defines > "testfunction" itself > > (which makes exporting pointless). In my example the script being > executed within the > > psql script does not define testfunction itself. > > > > -> == execute in subshell > > > > main-script (def func) -> psql -> psql-call-bash (invoke func) > > I am confused; my shell script does *not* contain a function definition. > > Am I missing something? > Nope, it was a combination of ERRNOCAFFINE and not seeing a second script. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 I tried your way of not using a "main-script" and got the same result. I can see the exported environment variable TEST_ENVVAR in the "env" output of the psql \! subshell. "declare -Fx" shows no results. I replaced "/usr/bin/env bash" with "/bin/bash" to no effect. David J.
