Re: pgbench - allow to store select results into variables

> Well, personally, as an all-ASCII guy I'm not too fussed about that,
> but I can see that other people might be annoyed.
> 
> The main problem in dealing with it seems to be whether you're willing
> to support pgbench running in non-backend-safe encodings (eg SJIS).
> If we rejected that case then it'd be a relatively simple change to allow
> pgbench to treat any high-bit-set byte as a valid variable name character.
> (I think anyway, haven't checked the code.)
> 
> Although ... actually, psql allows any high-bit-set byte in variable
> names (cf valid_variable_name()) without concern about encoding.
> That means it's formally incorrect in SJIS, but it's been like that
> for an awful lot of years and nobody's complained.  Maybe it'd be fine
> for pgbench to act the same.

That's my thought too.

> Having said all that, I think we're at the point in the commitfest
> where if there's any design question at all about a patch, it should
> get booted to the next cycle.  We are going to have more than enough
> to do to stabilize what's already committed, we don't need to be
> adding more uncertainty.

Ok, I will move the patch to the next cf.

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Tatsuo Ishii
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