Re: TODO item -- Improve psql's handling of multi-line

Hello,

Sorry for not quick problem fixing, I was quite busy last time...

I submit the new version of my patch (against the CVS tip), correcting the
problem with \edit (pointed by Andreas). So now everything works fine.

With Best Regards,

Sergey

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Where are we on this patch? Was it submitted? Applied? Just an idea?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
> > Sergey E. Koposov writes:
> >
> > > I'm proposing the small patch for the TODO item -- Improve psql's handling
> > > of multi-line queries. With this patch the multi-line queries are saved
> > > by readline as whole and not line by line.
> >
> > I like it already!
> >
> > > This is my first patch for Postgres but it seems to work and to not break
> > > anything.
> > >
> > > I'm waiting for review, comments, objections, etc...
> >
> > Did you consider its interaction with \e? Editing the query_buffer
> > with \e will leave that query prefixed with \e in the history. That
> > wasn't the case before your patch.
> >
> > Also, using \e several times on a query without sending it (i.e.
> > without a semicolon) will yield a history entry of a concatenation of
> > old query buffers.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andreas
> >
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Sergey E. Koposov
Max-Planck Institut for Astronomy
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