Puppet heredoc with double-quotes in different lines - puppet

Question

I would like to pass a multi-line command into a Puppet (4.10.12) exec resource. The following fails with "syntax error at 'sudo'":
exec { 'create databases':
command => $("EOT")
sudo -u postgres psql -c
"CREATE DATABASE db1 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8';
CREATE DATABASE db2 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8';
CREATE DATABASE db3 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8'"
|-EOT,
}
I assume what is challenging about this case is that the two double-quotes appear on different lines. So what is the right heredoc syntax for a case like this?

Answer 1

I believe you need to add the L switch to your heredoc, and add a \ to the end of each line to escape the new line.
$command = $("EOT"/L)
sudo -u postgres psql -c\
"CREATE DATABASE db1 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8';\
CREATE DATABASE db2 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8';\
CREATE DATABASE db3 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8'"
|-EOT
exec { 'create databases':
command => $command,
}
You can view documentation here under "suppressing literal line breaks".

Answer 2

The following now works:
exec { 'create databases':
command => #("EOT"/L)
sudo -u postgres psql \
-c "CREATE DATABASE db1 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8'" \
-c "CREATE DATABASE db2 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8'" \
-c "CREATE DATABASE db3 ENCODING 'utf8' LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_CTYPE 'en_US.UTF-8'"
|-EOT
}
The following changes were necessary:
use `#' instead of '$' to refer to heredoc (typo)
use three -c options instead of one (in order to avoid error CREATE DATABASE cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string)
use heredoc switch L (as suggested by #mardotio)
I'll accept the other answer since it contains an important element (and is by a new contributor :-)