Seems the consensus was this was a good idea, and not feature-creep.
It needs SGML documentation, which I will add.
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Chad Wagner wrote:
> Anyways, here is the patch again with the pager output changed from 67 to
> 69. Feel free to use it or ignore it, I still think it is a useful patch
> and doesn't necessary imply that users will want looping next (although, I
> would like to do anonymous PL/pgSQL chunks ;). I just understand how useful
> internal variables are if you can't get input into them easily on all
> platforms.
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