Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> but why you need to do in psql? - you can prepare content outside and
> execute just like echo "CREATE FUNCTION ...." | psql
The bit that's probably hard if you're trying to do this in a shell
script is "quote this data as a SQL string literal". psql can get
that right even in the face of encoding considerations,
standard_conforming_strings, etc. Not sure you can build a
fully bulletproof solution outside.
regards, tom lane