Re: Printing

[Stephen Cook]

I think that offering some sort of feedback other than result sets would 
be nice for debugging.

Peter Brawley wrote:
>  >I hope this isn't a silly question, or something covered in a FAQ. . .
>  >but is there any reason to not have at least some primitive print
>  >formatting commands in MySQL?  Or am I missing something
>  >blindingly obvious?
> 
> I think the idea is that RDBMS ought to stick to what is necessary for 
> RDBMS management and leave the rest to application programs.
> 
> PB
>