Re: proposal or just idea for psql - show first N rows from relation backslash statement

2013/2/14 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> few year ago I proposed a implementation of macros - and I wrote a
>> prototype - enhanced psql
>>
>> http://okbob.blogspot.cz/search?q=epsql
>>
>> but now I don't think so enhancing psql in this direction is good way.
>> Enhanced console needs creating from scratch - it should be based on
>> some interpret language - LUA or javascript - probably it can be
>> better integrated to modern UI, can better do autocomplete - and this
>> design is out of my time possibilities and out of my targets.
>
> The main argument against psql macros II guess is that if you want
> bash like features, well, use bash.
>
> For my part I think that whenever psql enhancements are brought up the
> first think to consider is 'should this functionality exist on the
> server side'.   With proper stored procedures we get to write our own
> stuff like:
>
> CALL top10('foo');
>
> which seems more general and just as terse.  So I think implementing
> call syntax is probably topping my 'wanted feature' list.

My proposal should not replace stored procedures.

The core of my proposal was using autocomplete for one often task.




>
> merlin