Re: Psql Question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From He Weiping (Laser Henry)
Subject Re: Psql Question
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Msg-id 39C6CE1C.AF5D4BDA@zhengmai.com.cn
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In response to Can't connect to 6.5.2 server with 7.0.2 client  (Forest Wilkinson <fspam@home.com>)
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Danny wrote:

> - Hello
> - I had previous experience with Access and MySQL.
>
> -Situation
>
> - I am trying to create the equvilant of the following which is a mysql
> command.
>
> - Queston
> - But I cannot figure out how to do this is postgresql
>
> "mysql -u root -p mydb < mydb.dump"
>

I think:
psql -u somebody -d template1 < yourdb.dump
would work.

>
> - I was trying to create a test database using the following commands using a
> very cliche example . This command works on mySQL and should be part of the
> ANSI SQL standard
>
> mydb=# INSERT INTO Customer (Customer_ID,Customer_Name,Customer_Address,Customer_Email)
> mydb-# VALUES ('1','Danny Ho','99 Second Ave, Kingswood','dannyh@customer.com'),
> mydb-# ('2','Randal Handel','54 Oxford Road, Cambridge','randalh@customer.com')
> mydb-# ;
>

you can't insert two values at the same time, you would have to use two INSERT.

>
> -and I get the following errors :
>
> ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near ","
>
> Looking forwrd to your feedback.,
>
> dannyh
>
> dannyH@dix.com.au


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