On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 11:10:15AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 10:49 AM, Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> > > APparently, from "man psql", -c can do only one thing at a time. But you
> > > could do this with 2-3 commands (or 1 if you want to wrap the 2 up in a
> > > shell script or something). Here's an example...
> > [snip]
> > > psql --dbname mydb -c "\i create_try.sql;"
> > > psql --dbname mydb -c "select trythis('foo');"
> > > psql --dbname mydb -c "drop function trythis(varchar);"
> >
> > Or just put everything in one file and use -f <filename>
>
> And from the more than one way to skin a cat department:
>
> cat my.sql | psql mydb
> psql mydb < my.sql
Should anything go wrong with either of these constructs, you don't
get the line number where it did, so the following is better:
psql -1 -f my.sql
This ensures that the entire thing is run in one transaction, and when
anything goes wrong, you'll know the line number where it did.
Transactional DDL invaluable for changing schemas :)
Cheers,
David.
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