On Mar 11, 2011, at 6:17 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >>> I assume having psql support multiple -f files is not a high priority or >>> something we don't want. >> >> IIRC, nobody objected to the basic concept, and it seems useful. I >> thought we were pretty close to committing something along those lines >> at one point, actually. I don't remember exactly where the wheels >> came off. >> >> Maybe a TODO? > > Added to the psql section: > > |Allow processing of multiple -f (file) options
The original patch was a fairly trivial WIP one, which I started working on to add support for multiple -c flags interspersed as well. I haven't looked at it in quite some time, though; there had been some concerns about how it worked in single-transaction mode and some other issues I don't recall off the top of my head. On this topic, I was thinking that it may be useful to provide an alternate multi-file syntax, a la git, with any argument following '--' in the argument list being interpreted as a file to process; i.e.,: $ psql -U user [option] database -- file1.sql file2.sql file3.sql This would allow things like shell expansion to work as expected: $ ls 01-schema.sql 02-data1.sql 03-fixups.sql $ psql database -- *.sql etc. Regards, David -- David Christensen End Point Corporation da...@endpoint.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
