> I'm inclined to suggest that we should require all extensions beyond the
> boolean-literal case to be set up as a keyword followed by appropriate
> argument(s); that seems like it's enough to prevent syntax conflicts from
> future additions. So you could imagine
>
> \if defined varname
> \if sql boolean expression to send to server
> \if compare value operator value
I'm still thinking:-)
Independently of the my aethetical complaint against having a pretty
unusual keyword prefix syntax, how would you envision a \set assignment
variant? Would \if have a different expression syntax somehow?
--
Fabien.