| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, wufei(dot)fnst(at)cn(dot)fujitsu(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Willing to fix a PQexec() in libpq module |
| Date: | 2019-03-19 16:55:57 |
| Message-ID: | 20190319165557.w2kmnhlzdnispxvu@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2019-03-19 12:51:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > I think the answer is "no," and we should deprecate this misfeature.
> > It's bad enough that we'll be supporting it for five years after
> > deprecating it, but it's worse to leave it hanging around our necks
> > forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)
>
> The problem with that approach is that not everybody agrees that
> it's a misfeature.
Yea, it's extremely useful to just be able to send a whole script to the
server. Otherwise every application wanting to do so needs to be able to
split SQL statements, not exactly a trivial task. And the result will be
slower, due to increased rountrips.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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