On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> single-quoted according to Unix shell conventions. (So the > processing would be a bit different from what it is for the > same notation in SQL contexts.) > +1 Having been bit by format '%L' prepending an 'E' to any string that happens to have a backslash in it, I'm in favor of this difference. Any reason we wouldn't do :"VARIABLE" as well? People might expect it given its use elsewhere, and it would make possible things like SELECT '$HOME/lamentable application name dir/bin/myprog' as myprog \gset `:"myprog" arg1 arg2` both for expanding $HOME and keeping the lamentable dir path as one arg.
