Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Doesn't say about variable expansion ... And it seems to be in a different realm, because the point is that the command is going to have a single destination (either \-processing or sending it to the server). Is psql being just lazy here and avoiding parsing the command?
The intent is to leave open an avenue to pass a command to the server without any interference from psql at all. I have never been very comfortable with overloading -c for that purpose, and it certainly confuses users from time to time. But that's the idea anyway.
