Re: Enhanced psql in core?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Enhanced psql in core?
Date: 2011-07-10 16:51:15
Message-ID: 2946.1310316675@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2011/7/10 Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
>>> big part of this seems to be (based on the examples on the page,
>>> haven't read the patch) scripting functionality but now that we have
>>> DO, is really a need for that?

> note - a output from DO statement is limited to RAISE statement - you
> can't send back a SELECT's result

You can't *today*. But it's a very good question whether it wouldn't
make more sense to solve these problems by extending DO rather than
adding things into psql. Functionality in DO will be available to
non-psql clients.

regards, tom lane

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