Re: Need feedback on new feature (\for)

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 09:29:05PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > I said:
> > > ... I think it makes much more sense to push the
> > > complexity into the control query and keep the substitution rules
> > > non-surprising.
> >
> > BTW, taking that approach as gospel, we could forget my idea of
> > declaring datatypes for the control-query results.  Just substitute
> > 'em literally.  The quoting transformations could be done easily in
> > the control query with quote_literal() or quote_ident().
>
> Has the patch author looked at how psql variables adds quotes, usually
> like:
>
>     "\"":var"\""
>
> It is ugly, but it seems like the clearest way.

That's another solution. I've been a bit short of time recently but at some
stage I'm going to rework it to take some of the suggestions people made.
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