Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru(dot)hanada(at)gmail(dot)com>, Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable
Date: 2013-01-28 20:00:37
Message-ID: CAFj8pRAWmChqAMFmV=AyqDV7x=k-7X=kYsuZf706JZ0qR7nmXQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

2013/1/26 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> +1. This looks quite nifty. Maybe useful too to have a default prefix
>> via some setting.
>
> Meh. I would expect that "\gset :foo" would work to specify a computed
> prefix if you wanted it --- isn't that sufficient indirection? I'm not
> thrilled with further expanding the set of magic variables in psql.
>

here is patch related to your proposal

Regards

Pavel

> regards, tom lane

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