Re: Concurrent psql patch

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> 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.

So would you prefer \g& as Jim Nasby suggested? I hadn't even considered that
previously since I'm not accustomed to using \g but it does seem kind of
pretty. I normally use ; but I suppose there's nothing wrong with just
declaring that asynchronous commands must be issued using \g& rather than use
the semicolon to fire them off.

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Gregory Stark
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