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Re: Correct handling of blank/commented lines in PSQL interactive-mode history

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-29T23:58:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2021-Nov-29, Tom Lane wrote:

> After some further hackery, here's a set of patches that I think
> might be acceptable.  They're actually fairly independent, although
> they touch different aspects of the same behavior.

I tried the collection and I find the overall behavior quite convenient.
I think it works just as I wish it would.

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Álvaro Herrera           39°49'30"S 73°17'W  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"The eagle never lost so much time, as
when he submitted to learn of the crow." (William Blake)

Commits

  1. psql: initialize comment-begin setting to a useful value by default.

  2. psql: treat "--" comments between queries as separate history entries.

  3. psql: include intra-query "--" comments in what's sent to the server.