From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: pgbench \for or similar loop |
Date: | 2011-04-19 16:49:38 |
Message-ID: | 1303231705-sup-2267@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar abr 19 13:33:27 -0300 2011:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> Yeah. I was wondering if anyone was gung-ho enough about this to
> >> implement some kind of library that both programs could draw on.
> >>
> >> It probably wouldn't be super-hard, if we could agree on a rough design.
> >
> > It seems to me that the Mo Betta answer would be to implement the
> > fabled "stored procedure" language, that has, as its distinctive, the
> > capability to control transactions. That would have the capability of
> > being used in places other than just inside psql.
> >
> > And it would be a good way for scripting things like specialized
> > vacuum and analyze regimens, which cannot be done inside stored
> > functions today.
>
> Well, I'm all good with that, too, but am not fired up about either
> one to implement it myself. So I think it's going to come down to
> what the person doing the work feels most strongly about.
I'm not at all fired up about stored procedures. The \for pgbench
feature I'm proposing is 2 orders of magnitude less code than that.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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