PostgreSQL Bugs - Re: BUG #2177: (minor:) pgsql: Trailing semicolon on \d treated as argument

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Re: BUG #2177: (minor:) pgsql: Trailing semicolon on \d treated as argument

Giles Morant

2006-01-21, 8:24 pm

I agree we cannot just throw the semi-colon away, but the action of
"\d" to assume the semi-colon is an argument and thus invalid is in my
view wrong.

On 1/19/06, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
>
> We can't just throw away semicolons, e.g.:
>
> \test=> \f ;
> Field separator is ";".
>
> The current behavior seems pretty good. It doesn't seem worth
> improving.
>
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