o turns off escape_string_warning in pg_dumpall.c
o optionally use E'' for \password (undocumented option?)
o honor standard_conforming-strings for \copy (but not
support literal E'' strings)
o optionally use E'' for \d commands
o turn off escape_string_warning for createdb, createuser,
droplang
to fix regressions introduced in the recent patch adding additional
\connect options. This is based on work by Volkan YAZICI, although
this version of the patch doesn't bear much resemblance to Volkan's
version.
\connect takes 4 optional arguments: database name, user name, host
name, and port number. If any of those parameters are omitted or
specified as "-", the value of that parameter from the previous
connection is used instead; if there is no previous connection,
the libpq default is used. Note that this behavior makes it
impossible to reuse the libpq defaults without quitting psql and
restarting it; I don't really see the use case for needing to do
that.
> 1) Fix the problems with the \s command.
> When the saveHistory is executed by the \s command we must not do the
> conversion \n -> \x01 (per
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-03/msg00317.php )
>
> 2) Fix the handling of Ctrl+C
>
> Now when you do
> wsdb=# select 'your long query here '
> wsdb-#
> and press afterwards the CtrlC the line "select 'your long query here
'"
> will be in the history
>
> (partly per
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-03/msg00297.php )
>
> 3) Fix the handling of commands with not closed brackets, quotes,
double
> quotes. (now those commands are not splitted in parts...)
>
> 4) Fix the behaviour when SINGLELINE mode is used. (before it was
almost
> broken ;(
Sergey E. Koposov
/dev/tty, but it isn't a device file and doesn't work as expected.
This fixes a known bug where psql does not prompt for a password on some
Win32 systems.
Backpatch to 8.1.X.
Robert Kinberg
comments on cluster global objects like databases, tablespaces, and
roles.
It touches a lot of places, but not much in the way of big changes. The
only design decision I made was to duplicate the query and manipulation
functions rather than to try and have them handle both shared and local
comments. I believe this is simpler for the code and not an issue for
callers because they know what type of object they are dealing with.
This has resulted in a shobj_description function analagous to
obj_description and backend functions [Create/Delete]SharedComments
mirroring the existing [Create/Delete]Comments functions.
pg_shdescription.h goes into src/include/catalog/
Kris Jurka
(optionally) to a new host and port without exiting psql. This
eliminates, IMHO, a surprise in that you can now connect to PostgreSQL
on a differnt machine from the one where you started your session. This
should help people who use psql as an administrative tool.
David Fetter
other stuff; change \du and \dg to be role-aware (Stefan Kaltenbrunner).
Also make tab completion fetch the list of GUC variables from pg_settings
instead of having a hard-wired copy of the list (Tom Lane).
mode to only affect the presentation of normal query results, not the
output of psql slash commands. Documentation updated. I also made
some unrelated minor psql cleanup. Per suggestion from Stuart Cooper.
psql. i.e. "\pset format troff-ms". The patch also corrects some
problems with the "latex" format, notably defining an extra column in
the output table, and correcting some alignment issues; it also
changes the output to match the border setting as documented in the
manual page and as shown with the "aligned" format.
The troff-ms output is mostly identical to the latex output allowing
for the differences between the two typesetters.
The output should be saved in a file and piped as follows:
cat file | tbl | troff -T ps -ms > file.ps
or
tbl file | troff -T ps -ms > file.ps
Because it contains tabs, you'll need to redirect psql output or use
"script", rather than pasting from a terminal window, due to the tabs
which can be replaced with spaces.
Roger Leigh
after an unknown or failed psql backslash command, and also while
discarding "extra" arguments of a putatively valid backslash command.
In the case of an unknown/failed command, make sure we discard the
whole rest of the line, rather than trying to resume at the next
backslash. Per discussion with Thomer Gil.
Bruce Momjian