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1. bug "\! cd"

   Kathy Zhu <kathy.zhu@sun.com> — 2002-07-26T18:00:01Z

   I did '\i cd' on solaris.
   It doesn't change the directory. It stays where it is.
   
   

2. Re: bug "\! cd"

   Victor Wagner <vitus@ice.ru> — 2002-07-29T13:00:22Z

   On 2002.07.26 at 12:00:01 -0600, Kathy zhu wrote:
   
   > I did '\i cd' on solaris.
   > It doesn't change the directory. It stays where it is.
   
   It is not a bug, it is a feature. Of any Unix, including Solaris,
   Linux etc.
   
   Current directory is a propriety of running process.
   When process is finished, its current directory is forgotten,
   and parent process doesn't know anything about it.
   
   \! in psql starts shell as child process and executes given command in
   it. So, executing a command "cd" couldn't affect psql process by design.
   
   If there is a bug, it is that there is no backslash-command to change
   working direcory. But there is such command - \cd, at least in 7.2.1
   
   
   
   
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