Re: pgbench \for or similar loop

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar abr 19 13:33:27 -0300 2011:
>> Well, I'm all good with that, too, but am not fired up about either
>> one to implement it myself.  So I think it's going to come down to
>> what the person doing the work feels most strongly about.

> I'm not at all fired up about stored procedures.  The \for pgbench
> feature I'm proposing is 2 orders of magnitude less code than that.

I think what that really translates to is "I don't want to bother doing
the careful design work that Robert talked about". -1 for that approach.

I generally feel that such a feature would be better off done
server-side --- after all, there's more clients in the world than psql
and pgbench, and not all of them could use a C library even if we had
one.  But in either case the coding work is going to be dwarfed by the
design work, if it's done right and not just the-first-hack-that-
comes-to-mind.
        regards, tom lane