Re: psql, remove include of psqlscan.c

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-09-27T19:28:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com> writes:
> What I'm thinking of in libpq is the ability to give it big string
> with many sql statements and have it hand back each statement
> so the client can then submit it to the server for execution.
> What I really _want_ is to be able get a bit string of many
> sql statements from the user and return the results, statuses,
> etc. of executing each statement.  Just what psql does when,
> say, fed a file from stdin.

Just as a note --- I believe you can get that result today with
PQsendQuery followed by a PQgetResult loop.  There's no need to
provide an API that splits the string first.

			regards, tom lane