Yes, you need double quotes around $@, as in "$@".
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Special-Parameters.html
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From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Date: 3/12/18 2:15 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: psql in a bash function
Hi,
Because I need to log into many servers, I created functions as keyboard shortcuts (not aliases, since I will want to embed these shortcuts in other functions).
psqlxyz ()
{
echo "P1=$1";
echo "P2=$2";
psql -U postgres -h XYZ $@
}
This is the (simple, test) command that I want to run, which works when run explicitly using psql, but not my function. Any ideas why the function isn't properly passing the "-c" and '"select ..."' to psql?
$ psql -U postgres -h XYZ -c "select oid, datname from pg_database;"
oid | datname
---------+------------------------
1 | template1
11563 | template0
11564 | postgres
16404 | test1
3039800 | ABCD
319011 | EFGH
649861 | IJKL
(7 rows)$ psqldba -c '"select oid, datname from pg_database;"'
P1=-c
P2="select oid, datname from pg_database;"
psql: warning: extra command-line argument "datname" ignored
psql: warning: extra command-line argument "from" ignored
psql: warning: extra command-line argument "pg_database;"" ignored
psql: FATAL: database "oid," does not exist Thanks
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