Re: Concurrent psql patch

"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:

> Since this command will be getting used very frequently by anyone using
> concurrent connections interactively, it'd be nice if it was lower-case.
> It looks like that limits us to j, k, m, n, v, and y. In unix this idea
> is about jobs, what about using \j?

Well currently it's not really terribly interesting to use interactively since
you could always just start a second shell and run a second instance of psql.
I really only have regression tests in mind for it. That's why I don't find it
a problem at all to only extend \g and not semicolon handling.

That said, I think a next step for this for interactive use would be to handle
C-z to "background" the currently running query. So perhaps it does make sense
to keep use cases like that when deciding on command names now.

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Gregory Stark
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