Re: Trailing semicolons in psql patch

greg@turnstep.com writes:

> Since there is no reason to have a table named "mytable;"
> why not just have psql do the smart thing and silently
> strip the trailing semicolons?

"Stripping" semicolons is one thing, accepting semicolons as command
separators is another.  Your patch seems to handle the case of

\d mytable;

but it doesn't handle any of

\d mytable; \d yourtable
\d mytable;<space>
\d mytable; select * from mytable;

Anything short of that plus...

> The attached patch only addresses
> a few backslash commands as a proof of concept,

...is just going to create some other confusion in place of the current
one.

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