Re: psql in the command line - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Owen Jacobson
Subject Re: psql in the command line
Date
Msg-id 144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC1DE489@nelson.osl.com
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In response to psql in the command line  (<Aniko.Badzong@swisscom.com>)
List pgsql-sql
Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Aniko.Badzong@swisscom.com wrote:
>
> > test:/opt/pgsql# echo "copy test from '/data/log/bla';" | psql logdb
> > COPY
> >
> > But when I try to execute it as root user I get the following error:
> >
> > [est/data/log] su - postgres -c "echo 'copy test from
> /data/log/bla;'|
> > psql logdb"
> > ERROR:  syntax error at or near "/" at character 16
> > LINE 1: copy test from /data/log/bla;
>
> This is clearly not the same line.  The quotes are not in the same
> position as in the line above.
>
> su - postgres -c "psql logdb -c 'copy test from \'data/log/bla\''"

Or, preferably:

$ echo "copy test from '/data/log/bla';" | sudo -u postgres psql logdb

HTH,
Owen


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