Ashish Karalkar wrote: > Hello All, > I want to prompt user to input some value and do some action on that value in runtime of a sql script. > Is there any psql command to do this ?? > I can use \echo do display massage > but to take input what is the command? > Thanks in advance You can do: \echo -n 'Enter value: ' \set x `read && echo $REPLY` in psql. I think we will have \prompt in 8.3. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +