On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think what that really translates to is "I don't want to bother doing > the careful design work that Robert talked about". -1 for that approach. As someone not doing any of that work, agreed ;-) > I generally feel that such a feature would be better off done > server-side --- after all, there's more clients in the world than psql > and pgbench, and not all of them could use a C library even if we had > one. But in either case the coding work is going to be dwarfed by the > design work, if it's done right and not just the-first-hack-that- > comes-to-mind. And for the "first-hack-that-comes-to-mind", I find my self pulling out the named fifo trick all the time, and just leaving my for/loop/if logic in bash writing SQL commands to the fifo, occasionally getting psql to write an answer to a file that I then read back in bash.... a. -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a slave. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
