Re: Creating files with testdata - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Francisco Olarte
Subject Re: Creating files with testdata
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Msg-id CA+bJJbyfE3NgyxBDb+Fp8ReZYQOZdit8jZF64PnE7ZVzzi=u0A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Creating files with testdata  (H <agents@meddatainc.com>)
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 19:17, H <agents@meddatainc.com> wrote:
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> After entering my test data into the markdown file for the given test scenario, I would then run an awk script or
similarto create a SQL file with the various CTE INSERT statements. Howevever, it gets complex since I need to handle
1:Nrelationships between tables in the markdown file... 
> I hope the above outline is understandable and am interested in comments and thoughts on my above approach.

I do not think MD would be a good source format. Being a developer I
would recommend taking your favorite scripting language ( perl /
python / lua / js , whatever ), build a big object ( which can be
easily helped by some mini-functions to build a little DSL ) and then
spit sql from it ( for developemewnt it is normally better then using
whatever db connection your language has, as it leaves an
understandable sql script ).

I have done this with perl for some projects, built a driver which
defined several helper functions, then dofile("xx.dat") which returned
a big hash and then a series of loops on the result to write the SQL
in whatever order was neccessary.

Francisco Olarte.



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