Re: How to use psql -c? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Charles Haron wrote:

> I want to be able to run the above command as a cron job.  I created a
> script with the following command, but I get "ERROR:  Attribute 'f' not
> found":
> su - postgres -c 'psql  -c "DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE confirm =
> 'f';" comfire'

Why not avoid shell quoting problems by doing it like this:

su - postgres -c psql comfire <<EOF
DELETE FROM prg_dates_members WHERE confirm = 'f';
EOF

Regards,

David.