Re: Making sure \timing is on

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:30:48PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:48:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > Is it reasonable behavior to have \timing along toggle and \timing on
> > > > / \timing off be a forced switch?  Just thinking of other scripts
> > > > where this isn't a problem and having to update them.
> > >
> > > The command without an argument should certainly keep the old toggle
> > > behavior, for backwards compatibility.
> >
> > Attached patch does some of the right thing, but doesn't yet handle
> > error cases.  How liberal should we be about capitalization, spelling,
> > etc.?
>
> Please try ParseVariableBool() in psql/variables.c, and use diff -c.

Thanks for the heads-up :)

Second patch attached, this time with some docs.

Cheers,
David.
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