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commit    7bd149ce2aa6af8910604eb45cc202798f563781
Author:   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date:     Mon Dec 14 04:42:54 2015 +0000
First released in: 9.6.0, 9.1.20, 9.2.15, 9.3.11, 9.4.6, 9.5.0

    Docs: document that psql's "\i -" means read from stdin.
    
    This has worked that way for a long time, maybe always, but you would
    not have known it from the documentation.  Also back-patch the notes
    I added to HEAD earlier today about behavior of the "-f -" switch,
    which likewise have been valid for many releases.


 doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index a416c1de9f9..6d0cb3d2ddc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1838,6 +1838,13 @@ hello 10
         class="parameter">filename</replaceable> and executes it as
         though it had been typed on the keyboard.
         </para>
+        <para>
+        If <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is <literal>-</literal>
+        (hyphen), then standard input is read until an EOF indication
+        or <command>\q</> meta-command.  This can be used to intersperse
+        interactive input with input from files.  Note that Readline behavior
+        will be used only if it is active at the outermost level.
+        </para>
         <note>
         <para>
         If you want to see the lines on the screen as they are read you


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