From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:00:33 -0300
Message-ID: <201901101900.mv7zduch6sad@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4798.1547144459@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 2019-Jan-10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Now let's see how the buildfarm likes this ...
>
> This \cset thing seem like an incredibly badly thought out kluge.
> What is its excuse to live?
The reason is that you can set variables from several queries in one
network trip.
We can take it out I guess, but my impression was that we already pretty
much had a consensus that it was wanted.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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