I think if it could be done in a reasonably aesthetic way in psql that would satisfy many people, without any need to disturb the backend, which Tom objects to.
That's a big "if", IMNSHO :-).
I'd hate to see this dropped, though
cheers
andrew
Bruce Momjian wrote:
I assume we never came to a final conclusion on how to do CREATE FUNCTION without double-quoting.
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Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
In that case, though, the solution will presumably look at least a bit different from those discussed so far in this thread. Or would you have psql detect that in place of a string there was "stdin" or whatever and then replace it with the inline string before passing it to the backend?
Please see the archives. I think that what was being discussed was something along the lines of
foo=> CREATE FUNCTION myfunc(...) RETURNS ... AS foo=> \beginliteral foo'> type my function definition here foo'> and here foo'> \endliteral foo-> LANGUAGE plpgsql;
and psql would proceed to quotify whatever you entered between the two backslash commands. (Notice this could be used for any string-literal entry problem, not only CREATE FUNCTION.) I'm fuzzy on the details though; this may not have been the best idea presented.
regards, tom lane
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