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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Using psql's \prompt command
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:40:56 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> > Prompt isn’t your issue. Prompt stores the value into a variable. Read
> how
> > to reference variables in a psql script.
>
> David,
>
> Thank you. I'll look into using the \set command.
>

Instead of \set (which can be tricky and unintuitive), consider the dialog
command with "psql --set=NAME=VALUE".

https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog

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