On Monday, May 26, 2014, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Amit Langote <amitlangot...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> writes: > > In a custom pgbench script, it seems convenient to be able to split a > > really long query to span multiple lines using an escape character > > (bash-style). Attached adds that capability to read_line_from_file() > > in pgbench.c > > This seems pretty likely to break existing scripts that happen to contain > backslashes. Is it really worth the compatibility risk? >
Do you mean due to the bugs you point out, or in general? Is it really at all likely that someone has ended a line of their custom benchmark file with a backslash? I'm having a hard time seeing what, other than malice, would prod someone to do that. Cheers, Jeff
