On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 02:01:25PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:55:14PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
Well, it'd be nice to allow substitution there ...
What we can't easily do is to allow quotes to prevent variable
substitution in these whole-line commands
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 05:31:41PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
I'm not sure whether that's a bug per se, but I can see where a
behavior change might be an improvement.
I did some research on this and learned a little more about flex rules.
Turns out we
On 17/08/12 18:38, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjianbr...@momjian.us writes:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 05:31:41PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
I'm not sure whether that's a bug per se, but I can see where a
behavior change might be an improvement.
I did some research on this and learned a little
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:55:14PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
Well, it'd be nice to allow substitution there ...
What we can't easily do is to allow quotes to prevent variable
substitution in these whole-line commands because we can't process the
quotes because that will remove them.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 05:31:41PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com wrote:
It looks like \copy is just passing the text of the query unadjusted to
COPY. I get a syntax error on :x with the \copy below on both 9.0 and
9.1
===
It looks like \copy is just passing the text of the query unadjusted to
COPY. I get a syntax error on :x with the \copy below on both 9.0
and 9.1
=== test script ===
\set x '''HELLO'''
-- Works
\echo :x
-- Works
\o '/tmp/test1.txt'
COPY (SELECT :x) TO STDOUT;
-- Doesn't work
\copy (SELECT :x)
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com wrote:
It looks like \copy is just passing the text of the query unadjusted to
COPY. I get a syntax error on :x with the \copy below on both 9.0 and
9.1
=== test script ===
\set x '''HELLO'''
-- Works
\echo :x
-- Works
\o
