David G. Johnston wrote:
> Being able to do more conditional work in psql would make setting up more
> robust scripts easier and without either losing transaction capabilities or
> session pooling for improved performance when large numbers of small
> commands are run in between flow control in done in bash.
Have you tried to script processes in shell using a single background
psql process with which the shell code communicates using a pipe? I've
long been curious about that approach, but never had a strong need
enough to actually write the code. It should be possible.
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