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Automating databse creation

From
"Ashish Karalkar"
Date:
Hello list,
I want to automate database creation, user creation,table creation via script. this script will be run by an external programme to postgresql server.
is there any way?
 
what i want to do is as follows:
 
 

#!/bin/sh

su - postgres

TIMEDUMP=`date +%Y%m%d"_"%H%M`

PG_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin

${PG_PATH}/pg_dump -d qsweb -U postgres -p 5432 -Ft -f /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar

echo ' Backup of Database for Quick School kept at path /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar'

${PG_PATH}/dropdb  -U qsweb qsweb

echo ' Old Database for Quick School Dropped'

${PG_PATH}/dropuser qsweb

echo ' Old user qsweb for Quick School Dropped'

${PG_PATH}/createuser -s qsweb

echo ' New user qsweb for Quick School created'

${PG_PATH}/createdb -O qsweb qsweb

echo ' New Database qsweb for Quick School created'

${PG_PATH}/createlang -U qsweb -d qsweb plpgsql

echo ' Database language plpgqslfor Quick School created'

echo ' Database for Quick School created. Please run the Create_Tables.sql script'

${PG_PATH}/psql -U qsweb qsweb

and then Run  Create_Tables.sql

_EOF_

 

 

is there any way??

right now the scripts stop after switching over to postgres user.

 

With regards

Ashish...

 

Re: Automating databse creation

From
Thomas Pundt
Date:
Hi,

On Friday 09 February 2007 08:53, Ashish Karalkar wrote:
| I want to automate database creation, user creation,table creation via
| script. this script will be run by an external programme to postgresql
| server. is there any way?
|
| what i want to do is as follows:
|
|
| #!/bin/sh
|
| su - postgres

[rest of not working script]

| is there any way??
|
| right now the scripts stop after switching over to postgres user.

assuming the script is run as user root, you can invoke it as
su - postgres -c /path/to/script

Just remove the "su - postgres" from your script. You might want to look
at your init scripts (/etc/init.d/postgresql I assume) for how they do it.

Ciao,
Thomas

--
Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@rp-online.de> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----

Re: Automating databse creation

From
"Bruce McAlister"
Date:

Hi Ashish Karalkar

 

That’s because the shell is waiting for input.

 

Try do something like this

 

su – postgres –c “${PG_PATH}/pg_dump -d qsweb -U postgres -p 5432 -Ft -f /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar”

 

That should run the command as the postgres user.

 

Thanks

Bruce

 

From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ashish Karalkar
Sent: 09 February 2007 07:54
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: Shoaib Mir
Subject: [GENERAL] Automating databse creation

 

Hello list,

I want to automate database creation, user creation,table creation via script. this script will be run by an external programme to postgresql server.

is there any way?

 

what i want to do is as follows:

 

 

#!/bin/sh

su - postgres

TIMEDUMP=`date +%Y%m%d"_"%H%M`

PG_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin

${PG_PATH}/pg_dump -d qsweb -U postgres -p 5432 -Ft -f /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar

echo ' Backup of Database for Quick School kept at path /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar'

${PG_PATH}/dropdb  -U qsweb qsweb

echo ' Old Database for Quick School Dropped'

${PG_PATH}/dropuser qsweb

echo ' Old user qsweb for Quick School Dropped'

${PG_PATH}/createuser -s qsweb

echo ' New user qsweb for Quick School created'

${PG_PATH}/createdb -O qsweb qsweb

echo ' New Database qsweb for Quick School created'

${PG_PATH}/createlang -U qsweb -d qsweb plpgsql

echo ' Database language plpgqslfor Quick School created'

echo ' Database for Quick School created. Please run the Create_Tables.sql script'

${PG_PATH}/psql -U qsweb qsweb

and then Run  Create_Tables.sql

_EOF_

 

 

is there any way??

right now the scripts stop after switching over to postgres user.

 

With regards

Ashish...

 



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