Re: psql: add \create_function command

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> but why you need to do in psql? - you can prepare content outside and
> execute just like echo "CREATE FUNCTION ...." | psql

The bit that's probably hard if you're trying to do this in a shell
script is "quote this data as a SQL string literal".  psql can get
that right even in the face of encoding considerations,
standard_conforming_strings, etc.  Not sure you can build a
fully bulletproof solution outside.

            regards, tom lane