Stuart,
Thanks for the reply.
You are dead right, and as expected the problem is not with psql.
> $ psql -H -P tableattr='width="80%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"'
>
> works for me. Carefully study my nice simple quoting: single quotes ''
> around the whole
> tableattr='THING' shebang and non-escaped double quotes "" for width
> and bgcolor values.
>
> Cheers,
> Stuart.
>
In my defence I did try that exact quoting, the problem is that it is being run from a script. I have thrown together
anexample to show the problem.
I have not yet worked to a solution.
If you know what it is I would be very greatful.
Allan
#!/bin/bash
set -x
DATABASEHOST="-h jitsnwm"
DATABASEUSER=galvuser
DATABASE=galvdb
TABLEOPTIONS="-P border=5 -P tableattr='width=\"80%\" bgcolor=\"#AFAFAF\"'"
ED=/usr/local/pgsql/bin
$ED/psql $DATABASEHOST -U $DATABASEUSER -d $DATABASE -q -P footer -P title=Summar
y -H $TABLEOPTIONS <<EOF_SQL
select version();
EOF_SQL
Produces....
postgres@jitsnwm:~/agl/sql> ./z.sh
+ DATABASEHOST=-h jitsnwm
+ DATABASEUSER=galvuser
+ DATABASE=galvdb
+ TABLEOPTIONS=-P border=5 -P tableattr='width="80%" bgcolor="#AFAFAF"'
+ ED=/usr/local/pgsql/bin
+ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -h jitsnwm -U galvuser -d galvdb -q -P footer -P title=Summary -H -P border=5 -P
'tableattr='\''width="80%"''bgcolor="#AFAFAF"'\'''
<table border="5" 'width="80%">
<caption>Summary</caption>
<tr>
<th align="center">version</th>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td align="left">PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)</td>
</tr>
</table>
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