Re: psql Feature request \set query

Everyone,

> What people asking for psql scriptability really want, in my estimate, 
> is the ability to write "SQL plus some control structures" anywhere, in 
> the server, in the client, or so that they don't have to know where. 
> Commercial vendors have that: Oracle has PL/SQL as server-side language 
> and client-side language.  Microsoft has T-SQL.  The others have similar 
> offerings.

I'm *not* proposing to implement full scriptability in psql.  Just one 
obvious extension of the existing pgsql variable feature.

I agree that giving psql its own unique scripting language would be 
stupid.  We should use something existing.  Ideally, we should make psql 
pluggable with the Perl & Python debuggers.


--Josh