Hackers, Just had a feature request from Wheeler, and I don't see why it shouldn't go on our todo list.
Currently, in psql you can do: \set myvar 2008-10-23 and you can do \set myvar `date` but you can't do \set myvar "Select now()" even though you could, bizarrely, do: \set myvar `psql -c "SELECT now();"` ... provided you were willing to parse out the garbage in the output. This seems inconsistent, and it seems like the ability to store the results of a single-row-returning query in a psql variable would be useful for testing. yes/no? -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL San Francisco -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
