Re: pgbench post-connection command

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> More like "\once ... any SQL command or meta command here ..."
>>> if we want to extend the scripting language.  But I'd be perfectly happy
>>> with a command-line switch that specifies a script file to be run once.
>
>> Once per connection, yes?
>
> Hmmm ... good question.  Heikki was speculating about doing CREATE TABLE
> or similar, which you'd want done only once period.  But I see no very
> strong reason why cases like that couldn't be handled outside of
> pgbench.  So yeah, once per connection.

OK, its a TODO item, but I don't think I'll have time for it for the next CF.

If we need it during testing of other patches then I'll write it.

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