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Re: pg_execute_from_file review

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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: 2010-11-29T16:51:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 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"?

That, I like.

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Robert Haas
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