Re: Feature Request: SQL parameters

Le 03/03/2011 00:03, Eric Schwarzenbach a écrit :
> Some years ago I worked with another DB tool, for another DB that
> offered support for SQL parameters in a way that was extremely handy.
> I've missed this feature in pgAdmin ever since. By SQL parameters, I
> mean the replaceable bits one puts as ? in a prepared statement.
> 
> When testing / debugging sql from application code, it is a major
> annoyance to have to constantly find and replace these ?'s. I forget
> exactly how the feature in the other tool worked...it may have actually
> detected the ?'s and prompted you for values the moment you tried to
> execute it. But the important thing was that it allowed you to leave the
> ?'s in the query, and gave you a place to fill in the parameter values
> to be used when you execute it. This may not sound like much on the
> surface, but makes an enormous difference. It:
> 
> * avoids having to hunt down the ? in a large complex query
> * keeps your query looking more as it appears in your source code (and
> you can more easily paste it back in after you've modified it in pgadmin)
> * keeps you from losing track of where the ?s were before you replaced them
> * is handier for testing out different values for the parameters.
> 

I'm not sure I understand what you would like to have. That pgAdmin asks
for values anytime it encounters a question mark in a query?


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