2009/11/10 Antonio Ruggiero <aruggier...@gmail.com>: > I am running PostgresSQL 8.3.8 on windows XP-64Bit. I am using psql > client from the PostgreSQL installation and not the Cygwin client. > > My issue is that the command line argument "-c command" is not > recognized. For example, if I run (from Cygwin) > > psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d $database postgres -c "select count(*) > from $table_name" > > I receive the following output: > > psql: warning: extra command-line argument "-c" ignored > psql: warning: extra command-line argument "select count(*) from > $table_name" ignored > Welcome to psql 8.3.8, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. > > Type: \copyright for distribution terms > \h for help with SQL commands > \? for help with psql commands > \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query > \q to quit > > Warning: Console code page (437) differs from Windows code page (1252) > 8-bit characters might not work correctly. See psql reference > page "Notes for Windows users" for details. > > End output. > > If I put the query in a file and run the file from the command line, > then it works fine. Furthermore, it appears I have all the necessary > priviledges since I can create/delete/modify tables in the database - > as long as the sql code is in a script file. > > I will add that this code runs on an XP-32Bit 8.2 install and I > recently installed PostgreSQL on the XP-64Bit machine. > > Thanks for any insight you can provide. >
It might be because you're specifying it after the database name which should be the last parameter, and which you've already specified with -d anyway. Try: psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d $database -c "select count(*) Regards Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
