Re: Add \i option to bring in the specified file as a quoted literal

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Piotr Marcinczyk <pmarcinc(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add \i option to bring in the specified file as a quoted literal
Date: 2013-11-12 16:07:03
Message-ID: 20131112160703.GK15562@momjian.us
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:31:39AM +0530, Amit Kapila wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Piotr Marcinczyk <pmarcinc(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to implement item from TODO marked as easy: "Add \i option
> > to bring in the specified file as a quoted literal". I understand intent
> > of this item, to be able to have parts of query written in separate
> > files (now it is impossible, because \i tries to execute content of file
> > as a separate command by function process_file).
>
> For the usecase discussed in the mail chain of that TODO item, Robert
> Haas has provided an alternative to achieve it, please check below
> link:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/AANLkTi=7C8xFYF7uQW0y+si8oNdKoY2NX8jc4bU0GWvY@mail.gmail.com
>
> If you think that alternative is not sufficient for the use case, then
> adding new option/syntax is worth, otherwise it might be a shortcut or
> other form of some existing way which can be useful depending on how
> frequently users use this syntax.

So, can we remove this TODO item?

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