On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote: >> If someone thinks that "gset" is a good idea for pgbench, which I don't, it >> could be implemented. I think that an "into" feature, like PL/pgSQL & ECPG, >> makes more sense for scripting.
> I agree: I like \into.
> But:
>> SELECT 1, 2 \; SELECT 3; >> \into one two three
> I think that's pretty weird.
Yeah, that's seriously nasty action-at-a-distance in my view. I'd be okay with
SELECT 1, 2 \into one two SELECT 3 \into three
but I do not think that a metacommand on a following line should retroactively affect the execution of a prior command, much less commands before the last one.
