Re: [HACKERS] pgbench - allow to store select results into variables

On 2017-Nov-04, Fabien COELHO wrote:

> Think of one initialization followed by two appends:
> 
>   SELECT 1 AS x \cset
>   SELECT 2 \; SELECT 3 AS y \cset
>   SELECT 4 \; SELECT 5 \; SELECT 6 AS z \gset
> 
> In the end, we must have the full 6 queries
> 
>   "SELECT 1 AS x \; SELECT 2 \; SELECT 3 AS y \; SELECT 4 \; SELECT 5 \; SELECT 6 AS z"
> 
> and know that we want to set variables from queries 1, 3 and 6 and ignore
> the 3 others.

I'm not sure I understand this.  Why is the "SELECT 2" ignored?  (I can
see why the 4 and 5 are ignored: they are not processed by gset).

What exactly does \cset do?  I thought "SELECT 2 \; SELECT 3 AS y \cset"
would search for the \; and process *both* queries.

I think the doc addition should be split.

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