On 2019-Mar-19, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On 2019-03-19 12:51:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> writes: > > > I think the answer is "no," and we should deprecate this misfeature. > > > It's bad enough that we'll be supporting it for five years after > > > deprecating it, but it's worse to leave it hanging around our necks > > > forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor) > > > > The problem with that approach is that not everybody agrees that > > it's a misfeature. > > Yea, it's extremely useful to just be able to send a whole script to the > server. Otherwise every application wanting to do so needs to be able to > split SQL statements, not exactly a trivial task. And the result will be > slower, due to increased rountrips.
I suppose it can be argued that for the cases where they want that, it is not entirely ridiculous to have it be done with a different API call, say PQexecMultiple. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
