But if it does make sense to share, then that's another reason for not designing something ad-hoc for psql: integrating it later will be more work in total.
Yes, but not much: evaluating "[!] :var" special syntax would be dropped, but I do not think that it is the main issue with these features.
I understand that your conclusion is to require psql expressions + conditions as one (large) patch.
Given my personnal experience with the patch process, my conclusion is that I will very probably not do it. Just adding logical expressions to pgbench, a minor feature for a minor client, has already been spread over 3 CF, and this is a part of what is required for the condition & expression in psql.
Hopefully someone else will do it, and I'll do some reviewing then. -- Fabien. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
