Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable

Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > I gave this a look.  I think it needs to be revised by somebody with a
> > better understanding of scanner (flex) than me, but I didn't like the
> > changes in psqlscan.l at all; the new <xvl> pattern is too unlike the
> > rest of the surrounding patterns, and furthermore it has been placed
> > within the block that says it mirrors the backend scanner, when it
> > obviously has no equivalent there.
> 
> > I assume there's a better way to do this.  Hints would be appreciated.
> 
> Personally I saw no reason for this patch to touch psqlscan.l in the
> first place.  Commands such as \set just scan variable names with
> psql_scan_slash_option(OT_NORMAL); why shouldn't this act the same?
> 
> Moreover, the proposed lexer rules are flat out *wrong*, in that they
> insist on the target variable names being {identifier}s, a restriction
> not imposed by \set.

Great, thanks for the feedback.  Marking as returned in CF.  I hope to
see a new version after pgconf.eu.

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