Re: \prompt for psql

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Seems the consensus was this was a good idea, and not feature-creep.
> >
> > I wonder whether we want this to read from the console, like the
> > password prompts, or from stdin.  Not sure which is more useful.
> >
> I think from stdin. Otherwise it won't be possible to script it at all.
> Passwords are special, other prompts are not, I think.

stdin makes it impossible to read a script from stdin and still prompt
the user, but I think that is of limited usefulness.

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