On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:46:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David Fetter" <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > is there some way to let the right hand side of SET be the (TEXT)
> > output of a function?
>
> No. SET is a utility command and utility commands generally don't
> do expression evaluation. (There are some specific reasons why not
> for SET, but I won't get into that here.)
>
> However, you can get the desired effect in various other ways; see
> the set_config() function, or try updating the pg_settings view ...
foo=> UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_settings SET setting = 'bar,' || setting
WHERE "name"='search_path';
-[ RECORD 1 ]----------------
set_config | bar,$user,public
That's a neat trick :)
However:
psql foo foo
foo=> SHOW search_path ;
search_path
--------------
$user,public
(1 row)
How do I make it permanent?
Cheers,
D
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