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Re: pg_execute_from_file review

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-11-29T16:48:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> pg_execute_file() could be read to mean you are going to execute the
> file itself (i.e. it's a program).

Well, if that's what it suggests to you, I don't see how adding "from"
disambiguates anything.  You could be executing machine code "from"
a file, too.

What did you think of "pg_execute_sql_file"?

			regards, tom lane