Re: proposal: new long psql parameter --on-error-stop

2014-02-28 22:52 GMT+01:00 Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>:

> On Fri, February 28, 2014 22:38, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> >>> Well, then we just have to add more info to --help
> >
> >> +1 for at least doing that. I found it annoying just the other day not
> >> to find it in plsql's --help output, in a moment of brain fade when I
> >> forgot how to spell it. So it's not just beginners who can benefit, it's
> >> people like me whose memory occasionally goes awry.
> >
> > No objection in principle, but what are we talking about exactly?
> > Adding some new backslash command that lists all the variables that have
> > special meanings? I'm not sure that the main --help output is the place
> > for this, because that only covers psql's command line switches (and
> > is plenty long enough already).
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
> Perhaps this compromise:
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> -v, --set=, --variable=NAME=VALUE
> set psql variable NAME to VALUE e.g.: -v
> ON_ERROR_STOP=1
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can be

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> this would not lengthen and not broaden the output of psql --help
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