Tom Lane wrote:
In any case I don't think that "getting stuff from
psql variables into a DO script" is the way to define the problem.
It's "getting stuff from shell variables into a DO script" that is the
real-world problem.
Indeed. But setting psql variables from the command line is easy. We
have a nifty switch for it. So we could reduce one problem to the other.
Maybe psql is the wrong tool altogether.
Yeah. The workaround is to use some sort of wrapper, in shell script,
perl or whatever. Maybe we should just let sleeping dogs lie.
I think you and I are in agreement though that an SQL level mechanism is
not the way to go, at least for now.
cheers
andrew
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