Re: Pass parameters to SQL script - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Pass parameters to SQL script
Date
Msg-id 200408191707.49177.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Pass parameters to SQL script  (Fuchs Clemens <clemens.fuchs@siemens.com>)
Responses Re: Pass parameters to SQL script  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2004 15:39 schrieb Fuchs Clemens:
> Now I want to concatenate a variable value with a "hardcoded" value in my
> script - something like:
>
> CREATE TABLE :myValue + _the_hardcoded_string ......

Option 1:

\set tmp :myValue 'hardcoded'
CREATE TABLE :tmp ...

Option 2:

CREATE TABLE :myValue
"hardcoded" ...

If myValue is double quoted, then the values will automatically be
concatenated by the backend parser, but for strange (SQL-standard) reasons
you need a line break in between.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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