Re: Concurrent psql patch

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Jim Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, "pgsql-patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Concurrent psql patch
Date: 2007-05-13 22:44:02
Message-ID: 20669.1179096242@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>> What's the reasoning behind \c&? Does it "send things into the
>> background" the way & does in the shell?

> Sort of. It sends the *subsequent* command to the background...

That sounds just bizarre. Existing backslash commands that do something
to a SQL command are typed *after* the command they affect (\g for
instance). I don't think you should randomly change that.

regards, tom lane

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