Re: Fabien COELHO 2016-10-03 <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610031259400.19411@lancre> > > I "\set" a bunch of lengthy SQL commands in there, e.g. > > I agree that this looks like a desirable feature, however I would tend to > see that as material for another independent patch.
Sure, my question was by no means intending to stop your pgbench patch from going forward by adding extra requirements. > Hmmm. I'm not sure how this is parsed. If this is considered a string '...', > then maybe \set should wait for the end of the string instead of the end of > the line, i.e. no continuation would be needed... > > \set config ' > SELECT name, ... > CASE ... END > FROM pg_settings > WHERE ...;' I guess that would be the sane solution here, yes. Not adding any \ chars at the end of the line would also mean cut-and-paste of the RHS content would work. Thanks for the feedback! Christoph -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers