On 2019-Jan-10, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@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
