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First pass over client applications documentation proofreading.

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Bruce Momjian
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.237 2010/01/29 17:44:12 rhaas Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml,v 1.238 2010/02/19 03:50:03 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
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<listitem>
<para>
Print all input lines to standard output as they are read. This is more
useful for script processing rather than interactive mode. This is
useful for script processing than interactive mode. This is
equivalent to setting the variable <varname>ECHO</varname> to
<literal>all</literal>.
</para>
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<para>
<replaceable class="parameter">command</replaceable> must be either
a command string that is completely parsable by the server (i.e.,
it contains no <application>psql</application> specific features),
it contains no <application>psql</application>-specific features),
or a single backslash command. Thus you cannot mix
<acronym>SQL</acronym> and <application>psql</application>
meta-commands with this option. To achieve that, you could
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
numbers. There is also a slight chance that using this option will
reduce the start-up overhead. On the other hand, the variant using
the shell's input redirection is (in theory) guaranteed to yield
exactly the same output that you would have gotten had you entered
exactly the same output you would have received had you entered
everything by hand.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
Specifies printing options, in the style of
<command>\pset</command>. Note that here you
have to separate name and value with an equal sign instead of a
space. Thus to set the output format to LaTeX, you could write
space. For example, to set the output format to LaTeX, you could write
<literal>-P format=latex</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<para>
<application>psql</application> returns 0 to the shell if it
finished normally, 1 if a fatal error of its own (out of memory,
file not found) occurs, 2 if the connection to the server went bad
finished normally, 1 if a fatal error of its own occurs (e.g. out of memory,
file not found), 2 if the connection to the server went bad
and the session was not interactive, and 3 if an error occurred in a
script and the variable <varname>ON_ERROR_STOP</varname> was set.
</para>
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<application>psql</application> is a regular
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> client application. In order
to connect to a database you need to know the name of your target
database, the host name and port number of the server and what user
database, the host name and port number of the server, and what user
name you want to connect as. <application>psql</application> can be
told about those parameters via command line options, namely
<option>-d</option>, <option>-h</option>, <option>-p</option>, and
<option>-U</option> respectively. If an argument is found that does
not belong to any option it will be interpreted as the database name
(or the user name, if the database name is already given). Not all
these options are required; there are useful defaults. If you omit the host
of these options are required; there are useful defaults. If you omit the host
name, <application>psql</> will connect via a Unix-domain socket
to a server on the local host, or via TCP/IP to <literal>localhost</> on
machines that don't have Unix-domain sockets. The default port number is
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Anything you enter in <application>psql</application> that begins
with an unquoted backslash is a <application>psql</application>
meta-command that is processed by <application>psql</application>
itself. These commands help make
itself. These commands make
<application>psql</application> more useful for administration or
scripting. Meta-commands are often called slash or backslash commands.
</para>
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<para>
<literal>aligned</literal> format is the standard, human-readable,
nicely formatted text output that is default.
nicely formatted text output; this is the default.
</para>
<para>
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<para>
Escapes to a separate Unix shell or executes the Unix command
<replaceable class="parameter">command</replaceable>. The
arguments are not further interpreted, the shell will see them
arguments are not further interpreted; the shell will see them
as-is.
</para>
</listitem>
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number of them. A number of these variables are treated specially
by <application>psql</application>. They indicate certain option
settings that can be changed at run time by altering the value of
the variable or represent some state of the application. Although
the variable or that represent some state of the application. Although
you can use these variables for any other purpose, this is not
recommended, as the program behavior might grow really strange
really quickly. By convention, all specially treated variables
@@ -2763,7 +2763,7 @@ testdb=&gt; <userinput>INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (:'content');</userinput>
Since colons can legally appear in SQL commands, an apparent attempt
at interpolation (such as <literal>:name</literal>,
<literal>:'name'</literal>, or <literal>:"name"</literal>) is not
changed unless the named variable is currently set. In any case you
changed unless the named variable is currently set. In any case, you
can escape a colon with a backslash to protect it from substitution.
(The colon syntax for variables is standard <acronym>SQL</acronym> for
embedded query languages, such as <application>ECPG</application>.