On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 05:01:26AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > 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?
We could call it something a little shorter, but yes. The part you trimmed away had descriptions of why the current behavior is correct. We don't really have ways to compose \ operators. If we're going to add composition to the psql language, we should think it through carefully, not just glom it on for a single special case. > I can of course solve my problem with a simple python program, but psql > is so close ... Agreed! Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
