damacy írta: > hello, everyone. > > i am trying to write a program which executes SQL commands stored in > .sql files. > > i wrote a function called psql() whose contents look like the > following. > > ... > os.popen(command) > file = os.popen(command, 'w') > file.write(password) > file.close() > ... > > where command looks like > psql -h [host] -d [dbname] -U [username] -W -f "[filename]" > > this works well. however, it does not show me any warning nor error > messages if there is one. for example, i am trying to create a table > which already exists in the database, it should show me a warning/error > message saying there already is one present in the database, or > something like that. > > can anyone help me? > You can put this in the beginning of your SQL file:
\set ON_ERROR_STOP If you also want to know what command caused the error: \set ECHO all You can also use a library written for Python. For example, psycopg http://initd.org/projects/psycopg1 Best, Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list