Holger Jakobs <holger@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > While trying to transfer data from one instance to another using > pg_dumpall and psql, the psql stopped on first error, causing pg_dumpall > to terminate as well. > This behaviour was seen on Windows (EDB installer), but is different on > Linux. > Only when using an option -c "\set ON_ERROR_STOP false" (plus -f - of > course to continue reading) psql continued after first error. > Not even the option -v ON_ERROR_STOP=0 helped. > Why is the behaviour between Linux and Windows different? This is not > reflected in the documentation. It shouldn't be different. However, this report would be trivially explained if your Windows machine has an %APPDATA%\postgresql\psqlrc.conf file that turns ON_ERROR_STOP on. You could try invoking psql with the -X command line switch to prevent reading that. regards, tom lane
