| From: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PATCH: pgbench allow '=' in \set |
| Date: | 2015-05-14 16:18:55 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.DEB.2.10.1505141812500.1821@sto |
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> [...] I tend to agree with the bottom line that that's just more
> complication than is justified. I sympathize with Robert's dislike for
> backslash continuations; but doing it the other way would be a huge
> amount of up-front work and a nontrivial amount of continuing
> maintenance, for which we would not get thanks from users but rather
> bitching about how we broke their scripts. Seems like a lose-lose
> situation.
I agree. It is a small matter that does not justify a large patch, a
greater maintenance burden and breaking compatibility.
I've posted a small patch for backslash-continuations as a new thread.
--
Fabien.
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