Re: Directly embedding a psql SET variable inside another string?

[Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

    On 1/13/23 11:13, David G. Johnston wrote:

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 9:12 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

is there any way to directly embed v_ssn in another string?

No

As expected, this fails:

postgres=# SELECT * FROM employee WHERE ssn LIKE :'%v_ssn%';
ERROR:  syntax error at or near ":"
LINE 1: SELECT * FROM employee WHERE ssn LIKE :'%v_ssn%';

Two options:

format('%%%s%%', :'v_ssn')

    This one looks clean, and works perfectly:

'%' || :'v_ssn' || '%'

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