Hi Rich, > On 09. Dec, 2020, at 19:10, Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Looking at the postgres-12 doc I cannot find a command 'PROMPT' anywhere in > it. but 12 has it: postgres=# \prompt 'input: ' input input: this is test input postgres=# select version(), :'input'; version | ?column? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------- PostgreSQL 12.5 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0, 64-bit | this is test input (1 row) postgres=# \? ... Variables \prompt [TEXT] NAME prompt user to set internal variable \set [NAME [VALUE]] set internal variable, or list all if no parameters \unset NAME unset (delete) internal variable ... Cheers, Paul