Re: multiple -f support

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM, David Christensen <david@endpoint.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 11, 2011, at 6:17 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>>> I assume having psql support multiple -f files is not a high priority or
>>>> something we don't want.
>>>
>>> IIRC, nobody objected to the basic concept, and it seems useful.  I
>>> thought we were pretty close to committing something along those lines
>>> at one point, actually.  I don't remember exactly where the wheels
>>> came off.
>>>
>>> Maybe a TODO?
>>
>> Added to the psql section:
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>>       |Allow processing of multiple -f (file) options
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>
> The original patch was a fairly trivial WIP one, which I started working on to add support for multiple -c flags interspersed as well.  I haven't looked at it in quite some time, though; there had been some concerns about how it worked in single-transaction mode and some other issues I don't recall off the top of my head.
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> On this topic, I was thinking that it may be useful to provide an alternate multi-file syntax, a la git, with any argument following '--' in the argument list being interpreted as a file to process; i.e.,:
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> $ psql -U user [option] database -- file1.sql file2.sql file3.sql
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> This would allow things like shell expansion to work as expected:
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> $ ls
> 01-schema.sql    02-data1.sql    03-fixups.sql
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> $ psql database -- *.sql
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> etc.

+1.

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