If you are on unix just run
$ psql -whatever < test.sql > test.log
Don't know about Windows.
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Ian.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Sushma Sagaram <sushma.2276@gmail.com> wrote:
> My requirement is
> 1) to write a query in a file, read the input from that file, run in
> postgresql and write the output(query results) into a file. I'm not able to
> use combination of \i and \o
> Let' say I have file test.sql and in test.sql I write
> select * from abc;
> Now I need to read the query from the file and write the output to a file.
> I tried
> =>\i test.sql \o test
> but that is not working. I want to write a script which reads query from
> file and write output in a file and I want to do everything in one script
> and run it background at a particular time of teh day.
> 2) How do I run scripts in postgresql? How do I set the shell and execute
> the script?
>
> Regards,
> Sushma
>
>
