Hi, I'm trying to use PostgreSQL's internal variables to simplify some shell scripting database setup stuff. Single quotes appear to behave differently in diffent contexts. CREATE USER :v_dbadmin WITH PASSWORD ':v_dbpass'; CREATE USER ....CREATE USER worked o.k. CREATE DATABASE :v_dbname WITH OWNER :v_dbadmin ENCODING ':v_encoding'; ERROR: :v_encoding is not a valid encoding name ....here the quotation marks appear to throwing things off :v_encoding is set to SQL_ASCII. If I remove the quotation marks, then I (appropriately enough) get the error: CREATE DATABASE :v_dbname WITH OWNER :v_dbadmin ENCODING :v_encoding; ERROR: syntax error at or near "SQL_ASCII" at character 59 LINE 6: SQL_ASCII; So it seems like the single quotes are causing :v_encoding to be read as a string literal for ENCODING, but they don't do that for WITH PASSWORD. ? -- Ron Peterson Network & Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
