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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:40:46 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Steve - DND <postgres@digitalnothing.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Junk queries with variables?
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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/