Re: pgbench - allow to store select results into variables

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
To: coelho@cri.ensmp.fr
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com, michael.paquier@gmail.com, Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp, robertmhaas@gmail.com, pavel.stehule@gmail.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2017-04-17T09:11:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Fabien,

> Hello Tatsuo-san,
> 
>> Thank you for the patch. I tested a little bit and found that it does
>> not allow value replacement against non ascii variables in given SQL
>> statements . Is it intentional?
> 
> No, this is a bug.
> 
>> If not, I think you need to fix parseVariable() as well.
> 
> Indeed. Here is v2.

I think you'd better to change the following comments because there's
no psqlscan.l or psqlscanslash.l in pgbench source tree.

+ * underscore.  Keep this in sync with the definition of variable_char in
+ * psqlscan.l and psqlscanslash.l.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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Commits

  1. pgbench: Remove \cset

  2. pgbench: add \cset and \gset commands

  3. Adjust pgbench to allow non-ASCII characters in variable names.

  4. Refactor script execution state machine in pgbench.

  5. Allow empty queries in pgbench.