In article <b42b73150701230831t317595f6o3beb37d43f363412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > can anybody think of of a way to sneak these into dollar quoted > strings for substitution into create function? > would i would ideally like to do is (from inside psql shell) > \set foo 500 > create function bar() returns int as > $$ > declare > baz int default :foo; > [...] Can't you put the psql call into a shell script and use shell variable substitution for that?