Hi Merlin: On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:23 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ....snip, snip.... >> Anyway, this is a little bit complex, as psql many times needs arguments. > true, but pretty much everything you might need can be handled via the > environment and the script itself. there are plenty of good reasons > do this and I can't think of any not to. Oh, don't get me wrong. I would like it and use it, I use a lot of she-bangs, even on linux which has the space-pasting behaviour, and I would not have problems with the default args. The only problems I see is more features, more places for bugs to hide, and a somehow difficult to use feature which would lead to a lot of surprises for the unexperienced. After all this years I still got puzzled for some of the she-bang problems. I doubt anyone would have backwards compatibility problems. I do not have cons, but I don't see that much pros. I would also point that in the many scripts I have running against postgres, not a single one of them would benefit from these, all need some heading, tailing, redirecting or whatevering intermixed with the DB access, although I suppose some of the more db-oriented ones could be redone to use this. But I ( personally ) would stick with doing them in shell, one more system of tricky variable interpolations and redirections would be too much for me. Regards. Francisco Olarte.
