On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> Queries can be as complex as necessary, they just have to fit in one line. Line continuation in general is missed though I thought something already when in for 10.0 that improves upon this... > In no way at all,in the sense that, either you choose to use an SQL > evaluator, or a client-side evaluator (if it exists), or a backtick > expression. > They are mutually exclusive for a single \if invocation. > > Client-side evaluation would have to be called with a syntax > that is unambiguously different. Is that the universe: server, client, shell? Shell already has backticks required Server, being the most common, ideally wouldn't need demarcation Client thus would want its own symbol pairing to distinguish it from server. Server doesn't need a leading marker but do we want to limit it to single statements only and allow an optional trailing semi-colon (or backslash command) which, if present, would end the "server" portion of the string and allow for treatment of additional terms on the same line to be parsed in a different context? I'm conceptually for the implied "SELECT" idea. It overlaps with plpgsql syntax. David J.
