Tom Lane:
> Or we could cut out the intermediate variable altogether
> by inventing something that works like :'...' but reads
> from a file not a variable. That might be too specialized
> though, and I'm not sure about good syntax for it either.
> Maybe like
>
> CREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS whatever AS :{source_file.txt} LANGUAGE ...;
That would indeed be very useful! I would immediately use this in a lot
of places.