Doing a \set through perl DBI ?

[David Gauthier]

Hi:

Is there a way to do the equivalent of a "\set foo 1" through perl dbi ?
I tried...
    $dbh->do("\\set foo 1");
and got a syntax error

Of course, I'd also have to be able to access the value of foo once its
set.   I'm guessing the usual way ??? (select :foo)


Thanks for any help !