On 2019-Jan-10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > Now let's see how the buildfarm likes this ...
>
> This \cset thing seem like an incredibly badly thought out kluge.
> What is its excuse to live?
The reason is that you can set variables from several queries in one
network trip.
We can take it out I guess, but my impression was that we already pretty
much had a consensus that it was wanted.
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