| From: | "Anton A(dot) Melnikov" <aamelnikov(at)inbox(dot)ru> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Question about "compound" queries. |
| Date: | 2022-10-25 11:45:28 |
| Message-ID: | db8a8685-649b-b6a2-d922-00ed2167939b@inbox.ru |
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Thanks a lot for the reply and timely help!
On 25.10.2022 01:36, David G. Johnston wrote:
> I suspect they came about out of simplicity - being able to simply take a text file with a bunch of SQL commands in a script and send them as-is to the server without any client-side parsing and let the server just deal with it. It works because the system needs to do those kinds of things anyway so, why not make it user-facing, even if most uses would find its restrictions makes it undesirable to use.
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> David J.
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All the best,
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Anton A. Melnikov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company
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