[GENERAL] Postgres Open CFP Brainstorm Hangouts, next Tues and Wed

2014-05-23 Thread Catherine Devlin
Considering submitting a Postgres Open proposal? Let's have a brainstorming session where we can fish for ideas, talk them over, and generally get ready to propose a talk! Postgres Open CFP: http://postgresopen.org/2014/callforpapers/ Inspired by PyLadies' PyCon Proposal Brainstorm Sessions: htt

Re: [GENERAL] extract psql meta-commands into library?

2014-03-07 Thread Catherine Devlin
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Hm ... the code in psql's describe.c is not terribly conducive to that. > Parsing of the backslash command, execution of the query/queries, and > presentation of the results is all rather tightly bound up; you'd have > to think about how to decoup

[GENERAL] extract psql meta-commands into library?

2014-03-06 Thread Catherine Devlin
I'd like to provide access to psql's "backslash" meta-commands for IPython's %sql magic, as well as some other non-psql tools. When I asked about standalone implementations of the meta-commands, Craig Ringer suggested that extracting them from psql into a libpsql library (which psql would then use