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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-12-13 23:42:54 -0500
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2015-12-13 23:42:54 -0500
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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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@@ -1838,6 +1838,13 @@ hello 10
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