| From: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: 2018-03 Commitfest Summary (Andres #1) |
| Date: | 2018-03-04 02:09:39 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsr+YHWZP-QM7AEAMsYHHDJa4_YOXxt1FoN5mkD=mrpKdunOw@mail.gmail.com |
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On 3 March 2018 at 17:56, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> wrote:
>
> The (trivial) big picture is to allow client-side expressions in psql
> (which as a \if:-) by reusing pgbench expression engine, so that one could
> write things like
>
> \let i :j + 12 * :k
>
> or
>
> \if :VERSION_NUM < 140000
>
>
I still haven't really grasped why this isn't done by embedding a
client-side scripting language interpreter, giving us vastly greater
capabilities with only the maintenance of the glue instead of writing our
own ad-hoc scripting tool. Something confine-able like JavaScript or Lua.
--
Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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