I wished for the same thing, happy to use one if it is made known to me. I pulled that pattern from somewhere else in the code, and given that the max number of args for a command is around 4, I'm not too worried about scaling.
If there are expressions one day like pgbench, the number of arguments becomes arbitrary. Have you looked at PQExpBuffer?
I will look into it.
There seems to be pattern repetition for _ev _ef and _sf _sv. Would it make sense to create a function instead of keeping the initial copy-paste?
Yes, and a few things like that, but I wanted this patch to keep as much code as-is as possible.
If you put the generic function at the same place, one would be more or less kept and the other would be just removed?
"git diff --patience -w" gives a rather convenient output for looking at the patch.
Good to know about that option.
As for a function for digested ignored slash options, it seems like I can disregard the true/false value of the "semicolon" parameter. Is that correct?
I would suggest to put together all if-related backslash command, so that the stack management is all in one function instead of 4.
I recognize the urge to group them together, but would there be any actual code sharing between them? Wouldn't I be either re-checking the string "cmd" again, or otherwise setting an enum that I immediately re-check inside the all_branching_commands() function?
I do not see that as a significant issue, especially compared to the benefit of having the automaton transition management in a single place.
I'm still struggling to see how this would add any clarity to the code beyond what I can achieve by clustering the exec_command_(if/elif/else/endif) near one another.
