On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Francisco Reyes <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Tom Lane writes: >>> Not that I know of :-(. There's been discussion of fixing all of psql's >>> "toggle" commands to offer "\foo on" and "\foo off" > >> What would be a good starting point for someone interesting in looking into >> working on that? > > This'd be a fine starting project IMHO, if you can read/code C at all. > The rubber meets the road in exec_command() in src/bin/psql/command.c > --- look around in that area. In particular note that ParseVariableBool > in variables.c probably ought to be what you use to interpret the > meaning of the argument. Is it reasonable behavior to have \timing along toggle and \timing on / \timing off be a forced switch? Just thinking of other scripts where this isn't a problem and having to update them.
