On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@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.
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