On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, Rich Shepard wrote: >> >> > Thank you. I'll look into using the \set command. >> >> My web searches find many examples of using the \set command, but none >> getting user input with \prompt. >> >> Please point me to a reference where I can learn how to get the user input >> string into the script. >> > > That is what \prompt is for. You have the correct meta-command, you were > capturing user input just fine. Read about how to use variables in queries > for the part you are missing. > Specifically the section of the psql docs titled: SQL Interpolation David J.
