Re: Suggestion for psql: --file -

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:16:05PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Albert REINER writes:
...
> > P.S: BTW, the man page (7.0.2) of psql is not very clear: it took me
> > some experimentation to find out that you have to do "\set VARIABLE"
> > interactively or give "--set VARIABLE=" to set a variable that does
> > not take a value.
>
> Suggested new wording?

What about:

-v, --variable, --set variable[=[value]]

Performs a variable assignment, like the \set internal command. Note
that you must separate name and value, if any, by an equal sign on the
command line. To unset a variable, leave off the equal sign and the
value. To just set a variable without a value, use the equal sign but
leave off the value. These assignments are done during a very early
state of startup, so variables reserved for internal purposes might
get overwritten later.

Albert.

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