Re: Doing a \set through perl DBI ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Doing a \set through perl DBI ?
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In response to Doing a \set through perl DBI ?  (David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@gmail.com>)
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On Wednesday, June 6, 2018, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi:

Is there a way to do the equivalent of a "\set foo 1" through perl dbi ?
I tried... 
    $dbh->do("\\set foo 1");
and got a syntax error

Of course, I'd also have to be able to access the value of foo once its set.   I'm guessing the usual way ??? (select :foo)


No.  Meta commands are psql client program only.  You'd need to explain why you want this to get reasonable server-side suggestions.

David J.
 

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