Re: Proposal: USING clause for DO statement

Tom Lane wrote:
> In any case I don't think that "getting stuff from
> psql variables into a DO script" is the way to define the problem.
> It's "getting stuff from shell variables into a DO script" that is the
> real-world problem. 

Indeed. But setting psql variables from the command line is easy. We 
have a nifty switch for it. So we could reduce one problem to the other.

>  Maybe psql is the wrong tool altogether.
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Yeah. The workaround is to use some sort of wrapper, in shell script, 
perl or whatever. Maybe we should just let sleeping dogs lie.

I think you and I are in agreement though that an SQL level mechanism is 
not the way to go, at least for now.

cheers

andrew