On 2018-Dec-06, David Fetter wrote: > There's a bit of a philosophical issue here, or a mathematical one, > whichever way you want to put it. Does it actually make sense to have > the behavior of one "semicolon" spill onto another?
Honestly, I don't see the mathematicality in this. It either works, or it doesn't -- and from my POV right now it doesn't. Are you saying we need a \gexecwatch for this to work? I can of course solve my problem with a simple python program, but psql is so close ... -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
