Re: Using Variables in Queries

On 19 October 2017 at 17:25, Scott Mead <scottm(at)openscg(dot)com> wrote:
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>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Igal @ Lucee.org <igal(at)lucee(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In other database servers, which I'm finally dropping in favor of
>> Postgres, I can do the following (mind you that this is for illustration
>> only, I do not actually write queries like that):
>>
>> DECLARE @query varchar(64) = 'red widget';
>>
>> SELECT *
>> FROM products
>> WHERE col1 LIKE @query
>> OR col2 LIKE @query
>> OR col3 LIKE @query
>> OR col4 LIKE @query
>> OR col5 LIKE @query
>>
>> The point is, though, that I can change the @query variable in one place
>> which is very convenient.
>>
>> Is it still true (the posts I see on this subject are quite old) that I
>> can not do so in Postgres outside of a stored procedure/function?

You should be able to do that using the DO statement:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-do.html

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