On Tuesday, March, 2001-03-27 at 21:42:39, markus jais wrote:
> hi,
> maybe this is somewhere in the docs but I couldn't find
> it.
> I am a beginner to postgresql and do not know much till now.
> I have bought a book on SQL and now I want to
> import the sample databases into postgresql
> they are provided as *.sql.
>
> in MySQL I can type something like in Bash on my linux box:
>
> $ mysql -u root -p < file.sql
>
> then the file file.sql is read.
>
> can you tell me how to do this with postgresql???
> thanks a lot.
very similar:
psql dbname username < file.sql
should work
(you can well omit username if it is the same as your login name)
regards
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Marek Pętlicki <marpet@buy.pl>
