A PGsendQuery API design for your review - Mailing list psycopg

Hi,

I've got users who write and submit arbitrary sequences of SQL
to the server, as supported by psql, phpPgAdmin, pgAdmin, etc.
I'd like to see this sort of functionality in psycopg2.

Someday I may submit a code patch.  In the meantime I'd
appreciate any review of an API design that supports
such functionality.

(Attached is a patch to the docs if you'd prefer to look
at it that way.)

Thanks for the work.

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The "cursor" class
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   -[ Commands execution methods ]-
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   executequery([buffered=True])

      Execute the next database operation (query or command) submitted
      to the server with "submitqueries()".

      "buffered" determines whether all query output is collected in a
      buffer by the client before delivery to the application or
      whether results are returned to the application as they are
      received from the server.  (The "cursor.execute()" and
      "cursor.executemany()" methods always buffer.)

      "True" is returned if a database operation was executed. "None"
      is returned if all submitted database operations have been
      executed.

      If a query was executed, the returned values can be retrieved
      using "fetch*()" methods.

      DB API extension: The "executequery()" method is a Psycopg
      extension to the DB API 2.0.

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   submitqueries(operations)

      Submit a string containing one or more database operations
      (queries or commands) to the database server for execution.

      Warning: Never, **never**, **NEVER** use Python string
        concatenation ("+") or string parameters interpolation ("%")
        to pass variables to a SQL query string.  See Passing
        parameters to SQL queries.  Always use the "mogrify()" method
        to construct the "operations" string if the SQL contains
        variable data.

      This function is primarily useful in the context of executing
      large reports, pre-packaged collections of SQL reports, and
      arbitrary user-supplied SQL.

      Use the "executequery()" method to execute the submitted SQL.

      DB API extension: The "submitqueries()" method is a Psycopg
      extension to the DB API 2.0.
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Regards,


Karl <kop@meme.com>
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