Hi 2016-07-09 10:20 GMT+02:00 Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr>:
> > Hello devs, > > I mentionned my intention to add some features to pgbench back in March: > > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.DEB.2.10.1603301618570.5677@sto > > The attached patch adds an \into meta command to store results of > preceding SELECTs into pgbench variables, so that they can be reused > afterwards. > > The feature is useful to make more realistic scripts, currently pgbench > script cannot really interact with the database as results are discarded. > > The chosen syntax is easy to understand and the implementation is quite > light, with minimal impact on the code base. I think that this is a > reasonnable compromise. > > The SELECTs must yield exactly one row, the number of variables must be > less than the number of columns. > > Also attached a set of test scripts, especially to trigger various error > cases. > > Why you are introducing \into and not \gset like psql does? Regards Pavel > -- > Fabien. > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers > >