Re: psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi:
>> Huh? The proposed syntax was
>>
>> \x query...
>>
>> What do you do when you'd like the query to extend over multiple lines?
>> Backslash commands can't cross lines.

> Save the fact that the current query is extended, until query end?

Yech. To name just a couple of problems, what if you decide after
typing another line or two that you didn't want \x after all?
Action-at-a-distance commands suck. You'd also find that this didn't
play very nicely with history recall, since the history stuff assumes
that a line starting with a backslash command is separate from those
around it.

If we want this at all, we should do it the way first proposed (\G).

regards, tom lane