On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 12:38:02PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> >> [ v7-0001-Add-warn-to-psql.patch ]
>
> > I took a look at this. I have no quibble with the proposed feature,
> > and the implementation is certainly simple enough. But I'm unconvinced
> > about the proposed test scaffolding.
>
> I pushed this with the simplified test methodology.
Thanks!
> While I was fooling with it I noticed that the existing code for -n
> is buggy. The documentation says clearly that only the first
> argument is a candidate to be -n:
>
> If the first argument is an unquoted <literal>-n</literal> the trailing
> newline is not written.
>
> but the actual implementation allows any argument to be recognized as
> -n:
>
> regression=# \echo this -n should not be -n like this
> this should not be like thisregression=#
>
> I fixed that, but I'm wondering if we should back-patch that fix
> or leave the back branches alone.
+0.5 for back-patching.
Best,
David.
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