In article <b42b73150701230831t317595f6o3beb37d43f363412@mail.gmail.com>,
"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> can anybody think of of a way to sneak these into dollar quoted
> strings for substitution into create function?
> would i would ideally like to do is (from inside psql shell)
> \set foo 500
> create function bar() returns int as
> $$
> declare
> baz int default :foo;
> [...]
Can't you put the psql call into a shell script and use shell variable
substitution for that?