From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Steve - DND <postgres@digitalnothing.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Junk queries with variables?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:40:46 -0700
Message-ID: <20050224074045.GA30413@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LDEHKBBOEMIJKHKBOFNFGEEHLLAA.postgres@digitalnothing.com>
References: <LDEHKBBOEMIJKHKBOFNFGEEHLLAA.postgres@digitalnothing.com>
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:12:47PM -0700, Steve - DND wrote:
> I really have to be missing something here and this probably a *really* noob
> question. I don't have a problem running little junk queries in the pgAdmin
> query window(SELECT blah FROM blah, INSERT INTO blah, etc...), but I can't
> figure out how to run queries with variables outside of a function. I just
> want to use variables without having to go about creating and dropping a
> function for every stupid little query I need to write.
I don't know about pgAdmin, but in psql you can use \set:
\set id 1
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id = :id;
\set name '\'Some Name\''
SELECT * FROM foo WHERE name = :name;
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: mike@fuhr.org, postgres@digitalnothing.com
Subject: Re: Junk queries with variables?
In-Reply-To: <20050224074045.GA30413@winnie.fuhr.org>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox