Re: [GENERAL] Adding flexibilty to queries

2004-03-25 Thread James Thompson
You can make it interactive if you are working from a unix box. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more zip.sql \echo -n 'Zip to search for: ' \set value `read input; echo $input` select * from zipcode where zip = :value Not sure how/if you could do this on a windows box. Take Care, James On Thursday 25 Marc

[GENERAL] Adding flexibilty to queries

2004-03-24 Thread Alan Carbutt
Hi all, I have a question regarding psql. As I am more familiar with oracle I can write the following select and make it rather flexible: select name from name_table where person_id = &id; The &id portion is what I am looking for in PostgreSQL. Basically when running this query, the person runni