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