From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable |
Date: | 2012-07-26 06:44:23 |
Message-ID: | CAFj8pRD1hZhQYgq1sWU7Kz0rPu=phiRgSg0ejgc9fLAuTpw9uw@mail.gmail.com |
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2012/7/26 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:31:13AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>> 2012/7/26 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>:
>> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:36:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> >> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> >> > \eset variable [, variable [..]] query -- it raise exception when
>> >> > more than one row is returned or when no row is returned
>> >>
>> >> Better would be a variant on \g, that is you type in the query and
>> >> then tell it where to put the result. We have learned the hard way
>> >> that putting SQL commands into the arguments of backslash commands
>> >> is a horrid idea. Maybe
>> >>
>> >> select x,y,... from ...
>> >> \gset var1 var2 ...
>> >
>> > How about
>> >
>> > \gset var1,,,var2,var3...
>> >
>>
>> I don't like this - you can use fake variable - and ignoring some
>> variable has no big effect on client
>
> Why assign to a variable you'll never use?
so why you get data from server, when you would not to use it ?
no offence, probably it is not hard to implement it - because we use
own parser, but I see this proposal little bit obscure
Tom - your proposal release of stored dataset just before next
statement, not like now on the end of statement?
Regards
Pavel
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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