Re: [PATCH] Add additional extended protocol commands to psql: \parse and \bindx

Hi,

> It took me a couple of days to get back to it, but attached is what I
> have finished with. This was mostly OK, except for a few things:
> - \close was inconsistent with the other two commands, where no
> argument was treated as the unnamed prepared statement. I think that
> this should be made consistent with \parse and \bindx, requiring an
> argument, where '' is the unnamed statement.
> - The docs did not mention the case of the unnamed statement, so added
> some notes about that.
> - Some free() calls were not needed in the command executions, where
> psql_scan_slash_option() returns NULL.
> - Tests missing when no argument is provided for the new commands.
>
> One last thing I have found really confusing is that this leads to the
> addition of two more status flags in pset for the close and parse
> parts, with \bind and \bindx sharing the third one while deciding
> which path to use depending on if the statement name is provided.
> That's fragile. I think that it would be much cleaner to put all that
> behind an enum, falling back to PQsendQuery() by default. I am
> attaching that as 0002, for clarity, but my plan is to merge both 0001
> and 0002 together.

I reviewed and tested v6. I believe it's ready to be merged.

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev