On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 11:52, Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote: > > > I could see having a command to copy the current primary formatting > > parameters to the alternate area, too. > > We could have a stack to store parameters before temporary > changes, for instance if you want to do one csv export and > come back to normal without assuming what "normal" > values were. > I think it might be a good idea to decide whether psql is to be a programming environment, or just a command shell. If it is to be a programming environment, we should either adopt an existing language or strike a committee of programming language experts to design a new one. If it is to be a command shell, new features should be evaluated in part on whether they move psql significantly closer to being a programming language and rejected if they do.
