Re: psql and \p\g

On 1999-11-11, Bruce Momjian mentioned:

> I have found that typing:
> 
>     test=> select * from pg_class\p\g
> 
> no longer works.  I honors the \p, but ignores the \g.
> 
> Any ideas Peter?

select * from foo \p \g

This was done to normalize the grammar a little bit (haha, very
funny). In particular it allows this sort of stuff:
=> select * from foo \p \o out.txt \g \\ select * from foo 2 \x \g
etc.

Is it *really* necessary to be able to omit the space?

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