[...] 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. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
