On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Michael Smolsky <sitrash@email.com> wrote:
> Could you please also confirm that variable expansion works correctly for
> psql's \i command as well?
>
> Test case (type on psql client prompt):
>
> \set my_dir /some/path/to/sql/script/dir
> \i :my_dir/my-script.sql
>
> I expect the parser to load and execute my-script.sql located within
> /some/path/to/sql/script/dir
Yup, that works on a 9.2dev client:
test=# \set my_dir /tmp/foo/bar/baz
test=# \i :my_dir/test.sql
?column?
----------
1
(1 row)
with test.sql containing the single line "SELECT 1;"
Josh
