On 04/08/2015 07:22 AM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> PostgreSQL uses a :colon syntax for parameterizing SQL commands with
> command line variables.
>
> create-database.sql:
>
> CREATE DATABASE :db;
>
> Usage:
>
> $ psql -f create-database.sql -v db=test
>
> However, pgsanity/ecpg rejects these.
>
> $ pgsanity create-database.sql
> line 1: ERROR: syntax error at or near ":db"
>
> Is there a flag I can give to ecpg to ignore input parameters?
>
> Is there a patch we could make to ecpg to accept input parameters?
>
> Is there another way to write my input parameters to work around this error?
If I am following correctly:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/ecpg-variables.html
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew Pennebaker
> www.yellosoft.us <http://www.yellosoft.us>
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Adrian Klaver
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