Re: BUG #2177: (minor:) pgsql: Trailing semicolon on \d treated

We can't just throw away semicolons, e.g.:

    \test=> \f ;
    Field separator is ";".

The current behavior seems pretty good.  It doesn't seem worth
improving.

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Giles Morant wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      2177
> Logged by:          Giles Morant
> Email address:      giles.pg@chaletpomme.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.1.1
> Operating system:   Linux (Gentoo)
> Description:        (minor:) pgsql: Trailing semicolon on \d treated as
> argument
> Details:
>
> When describing tables/view/indexes using \d, a semi-colon is optional:
> e.g.  \d users;
> or:   \d users
> Both give the same (correct) results.
>
> However, if there is a space between "users" and the semi-colon, the
> semi-colon is then treated as an argument and this occurs:
>    \d users ;
>    <cut lots of table info>
>    \d: extra argument ";" ignored
>
> The semi-colon should be ignored silently, in my view- "SELECT 1+2 ;" for
> example doesn't raise an alert.
>
> I searched the mailing lists to find a previous report of this very minor
> bug; the closest I found was some discussion in 2001 of stripping
> semi-colons from the end of such strings but the discussion seemed to stop
> with no resolution.
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2001-09/msg00285.php
> Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Thanks,
> Giles Morant.
>
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