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To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: psql man page error? 
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Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
	message dated "Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:41:00 -0500"
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:14:45 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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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.

			regards, tom lane