Re: massive quotes?

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 <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> 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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