Hello Pavel,
> Some possibilities from pgbench can have sense in psql too - generating
> some random numbers from a range.
Could you expand on the use case where this would be useful?
> In the end we use one parser for psql and for pgbench.
Note that "master" lexer is already shared, thanks to Tom, so as to detect
consistently where a query ends.
> I agree, so step 2 should be enough, and I accept so there is opened door
> for any future enhancing.
Good, because that was the idea:-)
> We can implement some client side boolean functions (similar to pgbench
> functions that can cover often tasks: version_less, version_greather,
> user_exists, tables_exists, index_exists, variable_exists, schema_exists,
Yes, that is a possibility, but this can already be queried into a
:-variable, so it is less indispensable.
--
Fabien.