Re: InitPostgres and flatfiles question

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > What value is allowing multiple queries via PQexec()
> 
> The only argument I can think of is that it allows applications to be
> sloppy about parsing a SQL script into individual commands before they
> send it.  (I think initdb may be guilty of exactly that BTW...)  At the
> same time you could argue that such sloppiness is inherently a Bad Idea.

I thought the idea was that psql was going to split multiple -c commands
into separate PQexec() calls, so sloppy was OK, and if they want a
single transaction, add BEGIN/END to the string.

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