Re: pg_upgrade test chatter

On 2021-Oct-19, Tom Lane wrote:

> I tried doing this as a one-liner change in pg_regress's
> drop_database_if_exists(), but the idea fell over pretty
> quickly, because what underlies that is a "psql -c" call:
> 
> $ psql -c 'set client_min_messages = warning; drop database if exists foo'
> ERROR:  DROP DATABASE cannot run inside a transaction block
> 
> We could dodge that, with modern versions of psql, by issuing
> two -c switches.

Isn't it easier to pass client_min_messages via PGOPTIONS?

PGOPTIONS="-c client_min_messages=warning" psql -c "drop database if exists foo"


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