I'm not really bought into some of the ideas.
but maybe some interactive mode should be usefull - so after >> execution, and showing result, will be prompt if result should be >> saved or not. > > I like the idea, in addition to the ordinary mode. Personally, I would use > the ordinary mode, but I can see how 'interactive' would be useful. > > This would require a complex change to the client code. And the result would eventually become annoying: an interactive question after each and every query. Currently, when turned on, every result is stored and simple notification is printed. > yes, the names :ans01, :ans02, ... miss semantics - How I can join > > this name (and content) with some SQL query? > > That makes sense. I think having part of / the whole query string would be > very helpful. Great suggestion! > > The naming is obscure and non-informative, I agree. If you have a nice idea how to make it better, I'd love to discuss it. But please remember that it has one huge advantage: simplicity. The client is a classical command-line tool, and as such it delegates some of the functionality to external programs, like pager or terminal. I'm pretty sure that your terminal emulator has a 'find' function that would allow you to quickly locate the variable and associated query in the scrollback. M
