Re: pgbench - allow backslash continuations in \set expressions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Fabien COELHO
Subject Re: pgbench - allow backslash continuations in \set expressions
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Msg-id alpine.DEB.2.20.1612030916210.4497@lancre
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In response to Re: pgbench - allow backslash continuations in \set expressions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow backslash continuations in \set expressions  (Rafia Sabih <rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com>)
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> FWIW, I looked a bit further and concluded that probably psqlscan.l
> doesn't need to be modified; so likely you could do this across all of
> pgbench's commands without touching psql.  That might be an acceptable
> compromise for now, though I still think that as soon as we have this
> for pgbench, users will start wanting it in psql.

The attached patch adds backslash-return (well newline really)
continuations to all pgbench backslash-commands.

The attached test uses continuations on all such commands (sleep set
setshell and shell).

I think that adding continuations to psql should be a distinct patch.

--
Fabien.
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