Re: Loading a list of SQL scripts with relative paths - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Loading a list of SQL scripts with relative paths
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Msg-id 200505101829.58576.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Loading a list of SQL scripts with relative paths  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
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Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> This works well, but I think I'll have to change all of the paths
> when I move the group of scripts to the production server to load
> them. What I'd like to do is be able to use paths relative to the
> file that contains the \i commands. This doesn't seem to work when
> using \i.

The paths are, as you probably found out, relative to the current
working directory.  Since the path of the current script is not exposed
as a variable or something like that in psql, I don't think you can do
any computations within psql to achieve what you want.  Others may have
ideas how you can organize your scripts differently, though.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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