Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> In that case, though, the solution will presumably look at least a bit
> different from those discussed so far in this thread. Or would you have
> psql detect that in place of a string there was "stdin" or whatever and
> then replace it with the inline string before passing it to the backend?
Please see the archives. I think that what was being discussed was
something along the lines of
foo=> CREATE FUNCTION myfunc(...) RETURNS ... ASfoo=> \beginliteralfoo'> type my function definition herefoo'> and
herefoo'>\endliteralfoo-> LANGUAGE plpgsql;
and psql would proceed to quotify whatever you entered between
the two backslash commands. (Notice this could be used for any
string-literal entry problem, not only CREATE FUNCTION.) I'm fuzzy on
the details though; this may not have been the best idea presented.
regards, tom lane