Charl Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is one 'install.sql' file which does something like:
> DROP DATABASE db_name IF EXISTS (<--- is there something similar in
> Postgre? Like the CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION)
> CREATE DATABASE db_name;
There's no IF EXISTS. Usually people just do a DROP and ignore the
error if any.
> How do you do this with Postgre? I tried using the "insert filename"
> command, but one file cannot seem to load another (ie, a SELECT filename
> gives me an error) and to start with, I cannot find something similar to
> "USE DATABASE" ....
You probably want to be looking at psql's \i and \c commands,
respectively. Does "insert foo" really mean a file inclusion
command in MySQL? Bizarre ...
regards, tom lane
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