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| author | Tom Lane | 2015-12-14 04:42:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2015-12-14 04:42:54 +0000 |
| commit | 38a4a42197f2b9fd237fc9b3958e602f25ffcd30 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e45035f4285e502cd975d4abd8607edb4b99670 /doc/src | |
| parent | 61c7bee2196d284a19692d83b33eac7588693292 (diff) | |
Docs: document that psql's "\i -" means read from stdin.
This has worked that way for a long time, maybe always, but you would
not have known it from the documentation. Also back-patch the notes
I added to HEAD earlier today about behavior of the "-f -" switch,
which likewise have been valid for many releases.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml index 4bc9e610a0c..b15f75e7d84 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml @@ -180,7 +180,10 @@ EOF <para> If <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is <literal>-</literal> - (hyphen), then standard input is read. + (hyphen), then standard input is read until an EOF indication + or <command>\q</> meta-command. Note however that Readline + is not used in this case (much as if <option>-n</option> had been + specified). </para> <para> @@ -1764,6 +1767,13 @@ hello 10 class="parameter">filename</replaceable> and executes it as though it had been typed on the keyboard. </para> + <para> + If <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is <literal>-</literal> + (hyphen), then standard input is read until an EOF indication + or <command>\q</> meta-command. This can be used to intersperse + interactive input with input from files. Note that Readline behavior + will be used only if it is active at the outermost level. + </para> <note> <para> If you want to see the lines on the screen as they are read you |