Re: massive quotes?

From: Jon Jensen <jon(at)endpoint(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: massive quotes?
Date: 2003-09-10 22:12:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.50.0309102211480.1303-100000@louche.swelter.net
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
> > I never agreed that a client solution would be satisfying. While
> > frontends might try to hide some uglyness of the syntax to the user for
> > single functions, editing large scripts with many functions is still
> > suffering from "massive quotes".
>
> Oh, and you will be feeding those script to the backend through what?

I don't know what he'd be using, but I use Perl/DBI for things like that.
Sure, I could spawn psql instances, but it's a lot less efficient and is
quite different from using DBI directly.

Jon

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