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