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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables
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Msg-id 201901101900.mv7zduch6sad@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2019-Jan-10, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > Now let's see how the buildfarm likes this ...
> 
> This \cset thing seem like an incredibly badly thought out kluge.
> What is its excuse to live?

The reason is that you can set variables from several queries in one
network trip.

We can take it out I guess, but my impression was that we already pretty
much had a consensus that it was wanted. 

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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