Re: psql substitution variables

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?