I'm trying to automate import data using CORY FROM. For this purpose I
wrote plpgsql function. As my postgres works on windows vista I need
to use E'' syntax for path-to-file. This syntax works fine in SQL
queries like:
COPY table FROM E'path_to_file_with_double_backslashes';

Following query works fine too:
COPY table FROM $$path_to_file_with_single_backslashes$$;

However I can't figure it out how to use file_path variable as this
code throw error while compilation:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION func (inout _chrom varchar) RETURNS varchar AS
$body$
DECLARE
  _chrom ALIAS FOR $1;
  _file TEXT;
BEGIN
  _file := $$c:\folder1\folder2\$$ || _chrom || '.txt';
  RAISE NOTICE 'Filename is -> %', _file;
  COPY table (column) FROM _file CSV HEADER;

  statements;

EXCEPTION
WHEN bad_copy_file_format THEN
        _chrom := 'badformat';
WHEN io_error THEN
        _chrom := 'ioerr';
WHEN undefined_file THEN
        _chrom := 'unfile';
        RETURN;
END;
$body$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' ;

ERROR: syntax error in query at or near "$1" at character 35
QUERY:   COPY table (column) FROM $1 CSV HEADER
CONTEXT: SQL statement in PL/PgSQL function "func" near line 7

Is there any tricks to solve this problem? I suspect that something
wrong with quotation but can not find out a mistake.

PS. Postgres server version is 8.3

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