Re: Enhanced psql in core?

2011/7/10 Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 5:29 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski
> <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com> wrote:
>> hi,
>> would it be possible to incorporate
>> http://www.postgres.cz/index.php/Enhanced-psql in core PostgreSQL/psql?
>>
>> This patch adds lots of nice functionalities, which we could definitely
>> use.
>>
>
> big part of this seems to be (based on the examples on the page,
> haven't read the patch) scripting functionality but now that we have
> DO, is really a need for that?
> i'm not really sure if we can do what the same as your example using
> DO but i'm really dubious about the usefullness of that example.
>

DO has same limits like functions - you cannot to switch database, you
cannot to store data to psql's session variables, you cannot do
"include file"

Regards

Pavel

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