| From: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] psql and libpq fixes |
| Date: | 2000-02-11 06:41:10 |
| Message-ID: | 20000211074110.B1289@fam-meskes.de |
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 05:12:54PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> That's very nice and all, but psql doesn't work that way. I'm not sure how
> other dbs organize their front-end internally, but that sort of scheme
> would really take psql places we might not want it to go, and for which it
> hasn't been designed -- namely, to be a programming language.
I wonder why we compare apples and oranges here. Of course esqlc was
designed to be parse a programming language while psql is a query tool.
Michael
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