Re: [HACKERS] psql and libpq fixes

> > > > FYI, the commands are
> > > > \set EXIT_ON_ERROR
> > > > and
> > > > \unset EXIT_ON_ERROR
> > > > It's a normal psql variable, but incidentally the syntax seems kind of
> > > > easy to remember.
> > > Can we change that to the more standard ON_ERROR_STOP?
>
> Any chance of multi-word options? Like "\set on error stop"?
>
> And at least part of the reason other systems can do some error
> recovery is that they decouple the parser from the backend, so the
> parser is carried closer to the client, and the client can be more
> certain about what is being done. But that carries a lot of baggage
> too...
>
> If/when we do get more decoupling, it might be done through a Corba
> interface, which would allow us to get away from the string-based
> client/server protocol, and will handle typing, marshalling, byte
> ordering, etc more-or-less transparently.
>

I think we would have to have more need for multi-word setttings than
this one before adding that complexity.

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