On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:17:19AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Chad Wagner wrote: > > This adds the ability to "prompt" for internal variable input, below > > are examples: > > > > test=# \prompt x > > Enter value for "x": 3 > > You can do this already approximately so: > > \echo -n 'Enter value: ' > \set x `read && echo $REPLY` > > Maybe one command is better, though.
That also requires a "reasonable shell", which all platforms don't have... //mha ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate