| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, Chad Wagner <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: \prompt for psql |
| Date: | 2007-02-09 02:17:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20070209021747.GV24069@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> That also requires a "reasonable shell", which all platforms don't
> >> have...
> >
> > I think doing any sort of reasonable scripting around psql requires a
> > reasonable shell. Or next someone will suggest implementing loops and
> > conditionals in psql.
>
> ... Now that you mention it :)
>
> psql is a shell. It is the postgresql shell. I don't see any problem
> with continuing to extend the postgresql shell to a more functional
> platform that is independent.
At least it'd help those poor people trying to do conditional COMMIT or
ROLLBACK based on the transaction status. Maybe it's not such a bad
idea.
On the other hand, seeing how the history line numbers patch is still
nowhere to be seen, I don't think we should be expecting you to send a
patch ... ;-)
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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