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Re: ";" no longer allowed to terminate a command beginning with "\"

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Sean Kelly <S.Kelly@newcastle.ac.uk>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-06-25T01:08:58Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Sean Kelly writes:

> 	Just would like some "is this a bug or a feature"-style
> clarification on this please.

It was an undocumented "fact" that didn't work very well or consistently,
but it will be back.

> 	In PostgreSQL v6.5 you used to be able to end a command issued to
> "psql" starting with a backslash "\" with a semicolon ";", eg.

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