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Steve Woodcock wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Attached is a patch for the following TODO item:
>
> o Improve psql's handling of multi-line queries
>
> Currently, while \e saves a single query as one entry, interactive
> queries are saved one line at a time. Ideally all queries
> whould be saved like \e does.
>
> I know now's probably not a good time, but it caught my eye and looked
> easy enough even for my rusty C.
>
> Regards, Steve Woodcock
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