Supported versions: Current (18) / 17 / 16 / 15 / 14

Development versions: 19 / 20devel

Unsupported versions: 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9.6 / 9.5 / 9.4 / 9.3 / 9.2 / 9.1

Historical version. PostgreSQL 9.4 has reached end of support. 2020-02-13. See the current manual.

VAR

Name

VAR -- define a variable

VAR varname IS ctype

The VAR command assigns a new C data type to a host variable. The host variable must be previously declared in a declare section.

Exec sql begin declare section;
short a;
exec sql end declare section;
EXEC SQL VAR a IS int;

The VAR command is a PostgreSQL extension.

Read the upstream documentation. For corrections, first check the current manual.