Erik Jones <ejo...@engineyard.com> writes:
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The reason you have to do this is that psql doesn't recognize
>> backslash commands in a -c string.  There's a school of thought that
>> doesn't want us to allow multiple commands in a -c string, even.

> Hmm... Apparently it does recognize them as long as the backslash is  
> the first character in the command string:

Hmm, maybe I was just misremembering the details.  What's certainly
true is that psql doesn't run a -c string through the same extensive
parsing that data from stdin gets.

                        regards, tom lane

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