Re: proposal \gcsv

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 11:52, Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> wrote:

>         Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >  I could see having a command to copy the current primary formatting
> > parameters to the alternate area, too.
>
> We could have a stack to store parameters before temporary
> changes, for instance if you want to do one csv export and
> come back to normal without assuming what "normal"
> values were.
>

I think it might be a good idea to decide whether psql is to be a
programming environment, or just a command shell.

If it is to be a programming environment, we should either adopt an
existing language or strike a committee of programming language experts to
design a new one.

If it is to be a command shell, new features should be evaluated in part on
whether they move psql significantly closer to being a programming language
and rejected if they do.