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Tom Lane authored
and the editor's cursor will be initially placed on that line. In \e the lines are counted with respect to the query buffer, while in \ef they are counted with line 1 = first line of function body. These choices are useful for positioning the cursor on the line of a previously-reported error. To avoid assumptions about what switch the user's editor takes for this purpose, invent a new psql variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH with (at present) no default value. One incompatibility from previous behavior is that "\e 1234" will now take "1234" as a line number not a file name. There are at least two ways to select a numerically-named file if you really want to. Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski, with further editing by Robert Haas and Tom Lane
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