Re: pg_execute_from_file review

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_execute_from_file review
Date: 2010-11-29 16:19:17
Message-ID: 4CF3D285.8010801@dunslane.net
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On 11/29/2010 11:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> I'm not sure why you need either "from". It just seems like a noise
>> word. Maybe we could use pg_execute_query_file() and
>> pg_execute_query_string(), which would be fairly clear and nicely
>> symmetrical.
> +1, but I think "query" is also a noise word here.
> Why not just "pg_execute_file" and "pg_execute_string"?
>
>

Well, I put that in to make it clear that the file/string is expected to
contain SQL and not, say, machine code. But I agree we could possibly do
without it.

cheers

andrew

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