Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-10T18:20:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Now let's see how the buildfarm likes this ...

This \cset thing seem like an incredibly badly thought out kluge.
What is its excuse to live?

			regards, tom lane


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.