Re: [Tora-develop] showstoppers for a public release of 1.4?

[Mike J. <mrj...@mi...>]

Ah, well in that case you are writing a report for psql, not for
anything else because that's the only program that'll accept input like
that.

Some similar things have come up with oracle, I've seen places where it
just outputs the status message "ignoring sqlplus command" and keeps
right on parsing.


On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 09:38 -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I'm attempting to output a heading to a generated report. Tora says the syntax 
> is invalid. It clearly is not, since I am able to run the report, without 
> error, within psql. For example;
> 
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "\"
> LINE 1: \qecho Client Summary.
> 
> The project description stated that postgresql was supported. Which lead me to 
> believe that this would not be an issue. If  there is no suitable workaround 
> available, then I will make the necessary adjustments needed. Thank you for 
> your reply.
> 
> 
> On Thursday 27 March 2008 21:46:34 Mike Johnson wrote:
> > Meta commands are a function of the psql client (correct me if I'm
> > wrong) and not something that can be easily done -- it'd require
> > specific support.
> >
> > It's a crazy useful thing in psql but I don't think it has a role in a
> > GUI app. There are better ways to do it. The whole schema browser is
> > there to implement \d, for example.
> >
> > I think if you submitted a patch we could accept it, otherwise this
> > isn't something we'll be able to do anytime soon. There's just simply
> > too much other stuff to do.
> >
> > A better question might be: what are you trying to do with meta commands
> > that you can't do with tora?
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:04 -0400, Daniel Clark wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The feature does not fully work,, in version 1.3.22.
> > >
> > > On Thursday 27 March 2008 08:05:26 Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> > > > Is this something that worked in 1.3 and doesn't in 1.4 - or a new
> > > > feature?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Nathan Neulinger                       nn...@ms...
> > > > Missouri S&T Information Technology    (573) 341-6679
> > > > System Administrator - Principal
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Daniel Clark [mailto:cl...@co...]
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 5:16 AM
> > > > > To: tor...@li...
> > > > > Cc: Neulinger, Nathan
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Tora-develop] showstoppers for a public release of
> > > > > 1.4?
> > > > >
> > > > > The major showstopper for me is full support for Postgres meta
> > > > > commands.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Monday 24 March 2008 11:03:17 Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> > > > > > What showstoppers are y'all seeing that would prevent doing at
> > > > >
> > > > > least an
> > > > >
> > > > > > initial public release of 1.4?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -- Nathan
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > > Nathan Neulinger                       nn...@ms...
> > > > > > Missouri S&T Information Technology    (573) 341-6679
> > > > > > System Administrator - Principal
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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