Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need to print to a file a simple list of all the databases on my
> postgresql.
>
> I need to do this from a shell script to be executed without human
> intervention
>
> I guess something like:
>
> su postgres -c 'psql ...whatever.... > /tmp/my_databases.txt'
>
> but I don't know exactly to what extent I can format the output of this
> in order to simplify the parser that will read that file.
>
> any suggestions ?
>
> thank you
>
> joao
>
>
>
psql -tc 'select datname from pg_database' template1