Re: pgbench - allow to store select results into variables

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com, michael.paquier@gmail.com, Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp, robertmhaas@gmail.com, pavel.stehule@gmail.com, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-04-07T07:55:28Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello Tatsuo,

>> Ok, I will move the patch to the next cf.
>
> Done.

If I understand correctly, the patch is moved because of the unrelated 
issue that variables cannot be utf8 in pgbench, and it is a condition to 
consider this patch that existing pgbench variables (set with \set) can be 
utf8?

-- 
Fabien.


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.