Re: massive quotes? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jon Jensen
Subject Re: massive quotes?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.50.0309102211480.1303-100000@louche.swelter.net
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In response to Re: massive quotes?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
Responses Re: massive quotes?  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:35:18PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> 
> > I never agreed that a client solution would be satisfying. While 
> > frontends might try to hide some uglyness of the syntax to the user for 
> > single functions, editing large scripts with many functions is still 
> > suffering from "massive quotes".
> 
> Oh, and you will be feeding those script to the backend through what?

I don't know what he'd be using, but I use Perl/DBI for things like that. 
Sure, I could spawn psql instances, but it's a lot less efficient and is 
quite different from using DBI directly.

Jon


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