On Friday 16 January 2009 10:09:06 pm johnf wrote:
> I'm using python and can execute standard "select,update,delete,functions".
> What I'd like to do is execute a sql script (a text file). But I don't
> know how?
> Some thing like:
> import psycopg2
> import psycopg2.extensions
> conn = psycopg2.connect("host=%s dbname=%s user =%s password
> =%s "
> %(self.pgSqlHostID.Value,self.pgSqlDatabaseID.Value,self.pgSqlUserID.Value,
>self.msSqlPasswordID.Value))
>
> conn.set_isolation_level(psycopg2.extensions.ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)
> tempCursor= conn.cursor()
> try:
> tempCursor.execute("run script %s " % FileNameScript)
> tempCursor.execute('commit')
> --
> John Fabiani
I don't know how complicated the script files are, but two methods come to mind.
The first is to use open() to read the file and parse the lines to the
execute() method. The second would be to use os.system() to do psql -d db -U
user -f FileNameScript.
--
Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net
