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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable
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Msg-id 20927.1359221128@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.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.
        regards, tom lane

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