Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:36:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > \eset variable [, variable [..]] query -- it raise exception when
> > more than one row is returned or when no row is returned
>
> Better would be a variant on \g, that is you type in the query and
> then tell it where to put the result. We have learned the hard way
> that putting SQL commands into the arguments of backslash commands
> is a horrid idea. Maybe
>
> select x,y,... from ...
> \gset var1 var2 ...

How about

\gset var1,,,var2,var3...

The above shows how one would skip assigning variables in the target
list, which one might want to do.

Cheers,
David.
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