From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
---|---|
To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, wufei(dot)fnst(at)cn(dot)fujitsu(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Willing to fix a PQexec() in libpq module |
Date: | 2019-03-19 16:55:57 |
Message-ID: | 20190319165557.w2kmnhlzdnispxvu@alap3.anarazel.de |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
Hi,
On 2019-03-19 12:51:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > I think the answer is "no," and we should deprecate this misfeature.
> > It's bad enough that we'll be supporting it for five years after
> > deprecating it, but it's worse to leave it hanging around our necks
> > forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)
>
> The problem with that approach is that not everybody agrees that
> it's a misfeature.
Yea, it's extremely useful to just be able to send a whole script to the
server. Otherwise every application wanting to do so needs to be able to
split SQL statements, not exactly a trivial task. And the result will be
slower, due to increased rountrips.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Alvaro Herrera | 2019-03-19 16:59:34 | Re: Willing to fix a PQexec() in libpq module |
Previous Message | Tom Lane | 2019-03-19 16:51:39 | Re: Willing to fix a PQexec() in libpq module |