Re: psql scripting tutorials

At 7:13am -0400 on Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> Nice trick, but when I try the following variant:
>
>   psql -v TEST=16 -c 'select :TEST as "input"'
>
> I get [a syntax error]

> This seems to be contrary to the psql manual page:

Nope.  Take a look at the -c option.  Specifically "Thus you cannot mix
SQL and psql meta-commands with this option."

You might try shell interpretation:

$ TEST=16; psql -c "select $TEST as \"input1\";"
$ TEST=16; echo "select $TEST as \"input1\";" | psql

Kevin