Re: proposal - assign result of query to psql variable

Hello

2013/1/26 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> +1. This looks quite nifty. Maybe useful too to have a default prefix
>> via some setting.
>
> Meh.  I would expect that "\gset :foo" would work to specify a computed
> prefix if you wanted it --- isn't that sufficient indirection?  I'm not
> thrilled with further expanding the set of magic variables in psql.
>

here is patch related to your proposal

Regards

Pavel

>                         regards, tom lane