Thread: Automated scripting...

Hi,

I'm building a script to create a relatively large database.  At some
point in the script I would like to be able to save values into
variables so that I can use them to populate rows.

Is this possible with SQL?  My understanding is that it is not
possible but thought I'd ask anyway.

Thanks,
Jamu.

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On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:54, jkakar@expressus.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm building a script to create a relatively large database.  At some
> point in the script I would like to be able to save values into
> variables so that I can use them to populate rows.
>
> Is this possible with SQL?  My understanding is that it is not
> possible but thought I'd ask anyway.

I know it seems a bit messy, but you could always use a temporary table to 
store the values.

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Saluton,

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:54:53PM -0800, jkakar@expressus.com wrote:
...
> I'm building a script to create a relatively large database.  At some
> point in the script I would like to be able to save values into
> variables so that I can use them to populate rows.

Your script will be handled via psql, right? Then you can use \set and
interpolation, as described in `man psql`.

Albert.


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