On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Fabien COELHO <coe...@cri.ensmp.fr> wrote:
> > [...] Obviously the \if stuff is things we don't have yet either, but it >>> seems less likely to have surprising side-effects. >>> >> > I agree, a more generic solution seems better than an ad-hoc one. > > Currently the value of a non existing psql-variable is... its own > reference:-( > > psql> \echo :x > > :x > > I'm not sure of the rational, apart from the probable lexer implementation > point of view. Maybe an empty string or 0 or some configurable value would > provide better alternative. The fundamental problem is that: SELECT 'testing' AS ":tablename" is perfectly valid SQL code. psql, by design, attempts to resolve all strings of the form <:['"]?\w> in a purely textual manner. David J.
