Re: [PATCH] Add additional extended protocol commands to psql: \parse and \bindx

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin(dot)bonnefoy(at)datadoghq(dot)com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add additional extended protocol commands to psql: \parse and \bindx
Date: 2025-06-13 13:57:42
Message-ID: 20476f68-26e4-4a3b-b2e6-1c7554359fe8@eisentraut.org
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On 13.06.25 04:56, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 09:53:13PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
>> wrote:
>>> And this is not something users ever see, so the connection would not be
>>> obvious. Maybe this should be called something more specific like
>>> \close_stmt.
>>
>> Maybe just \closeprepared ?
>
> I'm OK with a rename if people feel strongly about it and we still
> have the time to do tweaks like that, but I don't like the suggestions
> \close_stmt and \closeprepared, because that's inconsistent with the
> other new meta-commands.
>
> What about \close_named to be consistent with \bind_named? We always
> require a statement name when closing a prepared statement.

That doesn't address the concern that it's confusing what kind of object
\close operates on. There are named and unnamed cursors (= portals),
after all.

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