Re: help on automatically running sql files

From: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net>
To: "Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10)" <Pradeepkumar(dot)Pyatalo(at)honeywell(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: help on automatically running sql files
Date: 2004-08-31 07:57:04
Message-ID: 1093939024.5493.62.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 01:33, Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) wrote:
> Hi all,
> For the project that I am working on , we are using Postgresql 7.4.3 on
> Linux 7.2. We have all the database tables,triggers and stored procedures as
> seperate .sql files which we want to ship as part of our software. Now when
> the user installs our software, we need to check if postmaster service is
> running or not and if it is running, then we have to run the sql files
> automatically. Can anyone help me out on how to run the .sql files
> automatically.

Something like psql dbname <sqlfile.sql will do. If psql isn't in the
path, then /path/to/psql dbname <sqlfile.sql

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