Re: \gexec \watch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: \gexec \watch
Date
Msg-id 20181206080126.jl3tbw2odeqcpz2j@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: \gexec \watch  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: \gexec \watch  (Oleksii Kliukin <alexk@hintbits.com>)
Re: \gexec \watch  ("Daniel Verite" <daniel@manitou-mail.org>)
Re: \gexec \watch  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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On 2018-Dec-06, David Fetter wrote:

> There's a bit of a philosophical issue here, or a mathematical one,
> whichever way you want to put it.  Does it actually make sense to have
> the behavior of one "semicolon" spill onto another?

Honestly, I don't see the mathematicality in this.  It either works, or
it doesn't -- and from my POV right now it doesn't.  Are you saying we
need a \gexecwatch for this to work?

I can of course solve my problem with a simple python program, but psql
is so close ...

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