On May 20, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Wei Weng wrote:
> Say if I want to add a small snip of code in front of the sql script
> generated by the pg_dump, to check for something then if the condition
> doesn't match, the script terminates right away. (Without actually
> doing the restoring stuff that the following large chunk is supposed
> to do)
>
> Can I do that?
Put this at the start of the file to make psql stop if there is an
error:
\set ON_ERROR_STOP 1
> And is it a good idea to add arbitrary code to the database dump sql
> script?
No problem if you know what you are doing and/or have good backups :)
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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