Re: psql \pset pager

"Bruce Momjian" <bruce@momjian.us> writes:

> Steve Crawford wrote:
>> My fingers sometimes run on "autoappend semicolon" mode and I end up
>> typing "\pset pager always;" instead of "\pset pager always".

FWIW I get bitten by this all the time with \set AUTOCOMMIT.

>> I didn't find this documented. Is the acceptance of bad input by design
>> or an oversight?
>
> Will be fixed in 8.4.

I expect there'll be some screams from people with scripts which start
failing. I wonder whether we won't have second thoughts by then.

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