Ashish Karalkar wrote:
> Hello All,
> I want to prompt user to input some value and do some action on that value in 
> runtime of a sql script.
> Is there any psql command to do this ??
> I can use \echo do display massage 
> but to take input what is the command?
> Thanks in advance

You can do:

        \echo -n 'Enter value: '
        \set x `read && echo $REPLY`

in psql. I think we will have \prompt in 8.3.

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