Re: [PATCH] "\ef <function>" in psql

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> > At 2008-09-06 14:58:25 -0400, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
>
> > > What about the general issue that neither \e nor \ef leave you with a
> > > presentation of what's in the query buffer?
> >
> > I don't know how that can be fixed; but I agree with Brendan that it's
> > behaviour that people are used to, and that it can be left alone for
> > now.
>
> As far as it works to not execute the query when the user exits without
> saving the buffer, it should be OK.

Well, it works like \e now, which is good. The only complexity is that
\e works differently depending on whether you use ';' or \g, meaning:

SELECT 1;
\e

will execute the buffer on exit (saved or not), while

SELECT 1
\g
\e

will not execute the buffer on editor exit. Our current \ef code does
not add a trailing semicolon to the CREATE FUNCTION buffer contents so
it works like the second case, which is probably the best we are going
to do.

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