Re: Variable substitution in psql backtick expansion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bonjour Daniel,

> I think that users would rather have the option to just put
> an SQL expression behind \if.

Note that this is already available indirectly, as show in the 
documentation.
  SELECT some-boolean-expression AS okay \gset  \if :okay    \echo boolean expression was true  \else    \echo boolean
expressionwas false  \endif
 

-- 
Fabien.