From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: psql terminates on first error
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 09:33:30 -0500
Message-ID: <1897764.1677767610@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572addf0-5116-cec0-77fb-9a0ba0161240@jakobs.com>
References: <572addf0-5116-cec0-77fb-9a0ba0161240@jakobs.com>
Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> writes:
> While trying to transfer data from one instance to another using
> pg_dumpall and psql, the psql stopped on first error, causing pg_dumpall
> to terminate as well.
> This behaviour was seen on Windows (EDB installer), but is different on
> Linux.
> Only when using an option -c "\set ON_ERROR_STOP false" (plus -f - of
> course to continue reading) psql continued after first error.
> Not even the option -v ON_ERROR_STOP=0 helped.
> Why is the behaviour between Linux and Windows different? This is not
> reflected in the documentation.
It shouldn't be different. However, this report would be trivially
explained if your Windows machine has an %APPDATA%\postgresql\psqlrc.conf
file that turns ON_ERROR_STOP on. You could try invoking psql with
the -X command line switch to prevent reading that.
regards, tom lane
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