Re: How do I quit in the middle of a SQL script?

Quoting John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>:

> 
> On May 20, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Wei Weng wrote:
> 
> > Say if I want to add a small snip of code in front of the sql script 
> > generated by the pg_dump, to check for something then if the condition 
> > doesn't match, the script terminates right away. (Without actually 
> > doing the restoring stuff that the following large chunk is supposed 
> > to do)
> >
> > Can I do that?
> 
> Put this at the start of the file to make psql stop if there is an 
> error:
> 
> \set ON_ERROR_STOP 1
> 
> > And is it a good idea to add arbitrary code to the database dump sql 
> > script?
> 
> No problem if you know what you are doing and/or have good backups :)

You don't have to:
   pg_restore mydb.dump | psql --set ON_ERROR_STOP=1