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Commit 6436445e authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane
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Docs: document that psql's "\i -" means read from stdin.

This has worked that way for a long time, maybe always, but you would
not have known it from the documentation.  Also back-patch the notes
I added to HEAD earlier today about behavior of the "-f -" switch,
which likewise have been valid for many releases.
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......@@ -179,7 +179,10 @@ EOF
<para>
If <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is <literal>-</literal>
(hyphen), then standard input is read.
(hyphen), then standard input is read until an EOF indication
or <command>\q</> meta-command. Note however that Readline
is not used in this case (much as if <option>-n</option> had been
specified).
</para>
<para>
......@@ -1688,6 +1691,13 @@ Tue Oct 26 21:40:57 CEST 1999
class="parameter">filename</replaceable> and executes it as
though it had been typed on the keyboard.
</para>
<para>
If <replaceable>filename</replaceable> is <literal>-</literal>
(hyphen), then standard input is read until an EOF indication
or <command>\q</> meta-command. This can be used to intersperse
interactive input with input from files. Note that Readline behavior
will be used only if it is active at the outermost level.
</para>
<note>
<para>
If you want to see the lines on the screen as they are read you
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