Re: psql possible TODO

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql possible TODO
Date: 2006-12-06 02:56:35
Message-ID: 45763163.9040108@paradise.net.nz
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:

>
> You are saying that typing in 50 commands by hand, adjusting it each time,
> is efficient?
>
> I've done what you are suggesting - I think - I do it with a file. I
> type "psql -f <filename>". I run it as many times as required.
>
> Other times, I keep the 50 command lines in an XEmacs session, and I
> cut + paste whole paragraphs from XEmacs to psql.
>
> By doing this - my work is saved.
>
> psql is not an editor session. It will never be an editor session. It
> will always be a command line. Trying to treat it as an editor session
> sounds like torture. Augh. :-)
>

FWIW I tend to use a similar method to this - 'cept the editor is
usually vim instead of emacs...err..oh dear, emacs vs vi here we come...:-).

Cheers

Mark

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