Molenda, Mark P wrote:
>Thanks Ewald!
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>I was wondering if you needed any special syntax for the sqlfile or you can
>just do the standard
>select * from tablename\g on a line. -Mark
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it's an ascii file
select * from tablename;
Select x,y,z from tablename2;
Ewald
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ewald Geschwinde [mailto:webmaster@geschwinde.net]
>Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:41 AM
>To: Molenda, Mark P
>Cc: Pgsql-Novice (E-mail)
>Subject: Re: [NOVICE] running from a script
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>Molenda, Mark P wrote:
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>>I've read through most of Bruce Momjian's book on PostgresSQL and I have
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>>seen anything that shows how to run SQL commands from a script. I'm trying
>>to emulate some of the work I've done with Oracle in the past where I was
>>able to write either a DEC DCL script or a UNIX shell script to run SQL
>>commands
>>out of cron or another scheduler. Any help of snipits on how to get
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>>would be appreciated. -Mark
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>>Mark P. Molenda <<...OLE_Obj...>>
>>Senior Information Specialist
>>NYSC
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>psql -d database -U user < sqlfile
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>Is that what you mean ?
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