Re: Using psql's \prompt command

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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Using psql's \prompt command
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:46:26 -0700
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM David G. Johnston <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you. I'll look into using the \set command.
>>
>> My web searches find many examples of using the \set command, but none
>> getting user input with \prompt.
>>
>> Please point me to a reference where I can learn how to get the user input
>> string into the script.
>>
>
> That is what \prompt is for.  You have the correct meta-command, you were
> capturing user input just fine.  Read about how to use variables in queries
> for the part you are missing.
>

Specifically the section of the psql docs titled:

SQL Interpolation

David J.

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