On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 at 14:10, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Under what circumstances would it be appropriate for a script to take > it on itself to decide that? It has no way of knowing what the next -f > option is or what the user intended.
Presumably when they're written by the same person so the script does effectively know what the "user" intended because it's written by the same user. Off the top of my head I could imagine someone writing something like report-error-and-exit.sql and wanting to be able to use \i report-error-and-exit.sql to ensure all scripts report their errors using some common log file or something. Not saying that's the only or best way to do that though. And there is the risk that scripts would start using this functionality inappropriately which would mean, for example, getting an install script for something and then not being able to use it within another script safely :( -- greg
