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To: Arthur Lewis <arthur.lewis@hypermediasystems.com>
To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: insert a text file into a variable in order to insert into a bytea column
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:01:44 -0800
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On 01/28/2016 02:36 PM, Arthur Lewis wrote:
> Hi David,
> Yes you're correct. The problem is caused by the back-ticks (`) Here is what I found in the docs about back-ticks
>
> "Within an argument, text that is enclosed in backquotes (`) is taken as a command line that is passed to the shell. The output of the command (with any trailing newline removed) replaces the backquoted text."
Huh, I missed that in reading the docs.
So:
test-# \set stext `cat test.txt`
test-# \echo :stext
Test
second line
test-# \set stext `cat test.txt` '\n'
test-# \echo :stext
Test
second line
test-#
New lesson learned.
>
> Arthur Lewis
>
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