Re: How to suppress echo while executing batch files? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: How to suppress echo while executing batch files?
Date
Msg-id 20041117012746.GA45169@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to How to suppress echo while executing batch files?  (matthias@cmklein.de)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:17:16AM +0100, matthias@cmklein.de wrote:

> I have to execute fairly large batch files (200-300MB) with several million
> INSERT commands.

Can these files be rewritten to use COPY instead of INSERT?
Performance might improve.

> When I do that from pgsql using the \i switch, I get the echo
> INSERT 0 1
>
> for every single insert statement of my batch file.
>
> Since I assume that this slows down the whole process I would like to know
> if there is a way to suppress that echo and only get error messages and
> such?

\set QUIET

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Michael Fuhr
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