[GENERAL] apostrophes and psql variables

2006-08-17 Thread Ilja Golshtein
Hello! Is there any way to have psql variable in apostrophes? The idea is to do something like this \set var 'some value' insert into aaa values(:var) after substisution it should as simple as insert into aaa values('some value') I've tried all reasonable quotings I was able to make up but no

Re: [GENERAL] apostrophes and psql variables

2006-08-17 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:05:00PM +0400, Ilja Golshtein wrote: > Is there any way to have psql variable in apostrophes? > > The idea is to do something like this > > \set var 'some value' > insert into aaa values(:var) test=> \set var '\'some value\'' test=> insert into aaa values (:var); INSER

Re: [GENERAL] apostrophes and psql variables

2006-08-20 Thread Q Beukes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You must have missed one, because: root=# \set tv1 '\'testval\'' root=# insert into test values(:tv1); INSERT 0 1 root=# Ilja Golshtein wrote: > Hello! > > Is there any way to have psql variable in apostrophes? > > The idea is to do something like t