Re: psql -f doesn't complain about directories

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Letting psql execute a script file that is really a directory doesn't complain 
> at all:
> 
> $ psql -f /tmp
> 
> Should we do some kind of stat() before opening the file and abort if it's a 
> directory?

Actually anything other than a plain file, right?  (Do we really want to
be able to psql -f a_pipe?)

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