On 12.01.2012 22:04, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs<simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> More like "\once ... any SQL command or meta command here ..."
>>> if we want to extend the scripting language. But I'd be perfectly happy
>>> with a command-line switch that specifies a script file to be run once.
>
>> Once per connection, yes?
>
> Hmmm ... good question. Heikki was speculating about doing CREATE TABLE
> or similar, which you'd want done only once period.
I was creating a separate table for each connection to work with...
> But I see no very
> strong reason why cases like that couldn't be handled outside of
> pgbench. So yeah, once per connection.
... so that is exactly what I was thinking too.
For things that only need to run once, period, you can just do:
psql -c "CREATE TABLE"; pgbench ...
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