Re: [HACKERS] psql and libpq fixes

> But on third thought, probably the thing that would be really useful
> for "expected errors" is if there is a backslash-command that turns on
> or off the kill-on-error behavior.  (The command line switch would
> merely set the initial state of this flag.)  This way, a script could
> use the option in an intelligent fashion:
> 
>     \kill-on-error off
>     DROP TABLE t1;
>     \kill-on-error on
>     CREATE TABLE t1;
>     ...
> 
> It'd still have to default to 'off' for backwards compatibility,
> unfortunately, but something like this would be really useful.

In Informix 4GL, it is ON ERROR STOP and ON ERROR CONTINUE.

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