Re: Setting global parameter in Postgres 8.3

In response to A(dot)Bhattacharya(at)sungard(dot)com :
> CREATE TABLESPACE bank_master_tbsp OWNER bank LOCATION ?$drive/data/bank/
> master_tbsp';
>
> CREATE TABLESPACE bank_static_tbsp OWNER bank LOCATION ?$drive /data/bank/
> static_tbsp';
>
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> I need to replace the $drive with a absoulte location in order to create the
> tablespaces at run time.So is there any way I can pass parameter to sql file at
> the time of execuitng it or is there any way I can set a global parameter which

No. AFAIK.

> will repalce the $drive similar to the way postregs converts or maps the
> $libdir parameter to the absolute path of the ?Lib? location of postgres.

Create a function for that ...

Andreas
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