Re: psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql \G command -- send query and output using extended format
Date: 2008-04-03 22:48:19
Message-ID: 20080403224819.GR2528@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane escribió:

> Huh? The proposed syntax was
>
> \x query...
>
> What do you do when you'd like the query to extend over multiple lines?
> Backslash commands can't cross lines.

Save the fact that the current query is extended, until query end? I
haven't actually looked at what the implementation would look like.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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