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On 7/14/25 12:38, Rich Shepard wrote:

Reply to list also.
Ccing list.

> On Mon, 14 Jul 2025, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 
>> The above looks like the format 'aligned' output from a query.
> 
> Adrian,
> 
> I mistyped the script's extension as .txt rather than .sql.

That does not matter, that is more for user convenience in figuring out 
what the files are for.

\o test.txt
select * from cell_per;

Then doing:

psql -d production -U postgres -h localhost -p 5432 -f test.sql
Null display is "NULL".
psql:test.sql:82: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "line_id"
LINE 1: line_id |  category  | cell_per |      ts_insert      |

psql -d production -U postgres -h localhost -p 5432 -f test.txt
Null display is "NULL".
psql:test.txt:82: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "line_id"
LINE 1: line_id |  category  | cell_per |      ts_insert      |     ...

The error is the same as psql just processes the file without regard to 
the extension.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rich

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com