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Subject: Re: psql man page error?
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From: "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
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On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I think the proper fix is:
> 
> >       <application>psql</application>, like this: <literal>echo -e
> >       "\\x\nSELECT * FROM foo;" | psql</literal>.
> 
> > I think all modern operating systems understand echo -e at this point.
> 
> No, they don't, and neither does the Single Unix Spec:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/echo.html
> 
> So your version of the example depends on non-standards-compliant
> echo behavior, which is not better than before.

So the -e is wrong, but the rest of the change was right. Guess we just
need to add a comment about "(you may need to use the -e option on echo
to get this to work on your OS)."

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