Re: massive quotes?

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