Catherine Devlin <catherine.devlin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'd like to provide access to psql's "backslash" meta-commands for > IPython's %sql magic, as well as some other non-psql tools. When I > asked about standalone implementations of the meta-commands, Craig > Ringer suggested that extracting them from psql into a libpsql library > (which psql would then use) would make that easy for all matter of > external uses. > Does this sound doable / of interest? Hm ... the code in psql's describe.c is not terribly conducive to that. Parsing of the backslash command, execution of the query/queries, and presentation of the results is all rather tightly bound up; you'd have to think about how to decouple those. If you could do it in a way that didn't result in a quantum jump in the complexity/unreadability of the code, I think there'd be interest. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
