| From: | Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Using psql's \prompt command |
| Date: | 2025-01-30 22:40:56 |
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> > Prompt isn’t your issue. Prompt stores the value into a variable. Read
> how
> > to reference variables in a psql script.
>
> David,
>
> Thank you. I'll look into using the \set command.
>
Instead of \set (which can be tricky and unintuitive), consider the dialog
command with "psql --set=NAME=VALUE".
https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog
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