Re: InitPostgres and flatfiles question

>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
>>>> What value is allowing multiple queies via PQexec()
>>>
>>> The only argument I can think of is that it allows applications to be
>>> sloppy about parsing a SQL script into individual commands before they
>>> send it. (I think initdb may be guilty of exactly that BTW...) At the
>>> same time you could argue that such sloppiness is inherently a Bad
>>> Idea.

initdb doesn't use libpq at all ... are you saying it should only pass
individual statements to the backend? Adding smarts to enable that would
add complexity without any benefit I can see.

cheers

andrew