Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not sure how we could get away with that. Would it pass muster to do
>> that only when isatty(stdin)? Other ideas?
> What if we made it so that "exit" or "quit" bails out entirely when
> not in a continuation line, and when entered on a continuation line,
> provided isatty(stdin), prints some kind of message telling you that
> you're in a continuation line?
Yeah, that might work. As you say, if it only prints some chatter
(to stderr, I guess) without changing the semantics of the input,
it gets easier to defend.
regards, tom lane
