| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: psql's \copy incompatible with :variables |
| Date: | 2011-10-14 02:13:03 |
| Message-ID: | 201110140213.p9E2D3R10837@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> Note that psql variables work perfectly fine with COPY. It's just \copy
> >> which seems to be misbehaving.
>
> > The problem is that none of the backslash commands interpret variables:
>
> Nonsense.
>
> regression=# \set foo bar
> regression=# \d foo
> Did not find any relation named "foo".
> regression=# \d :foo
> Did not find any relation named "bar".
>
> \copy is different because it uses OT_WHOLE_LINE mode to read the
> argument, and that doesn't expand :variable references. I'd be a bit
> leery of changing that.
Oh, I see. My tests were wrong. Thanks.
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