| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | Wei Weng <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "'pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How do I quit in the middle of a SQL script? |
| Date: | 2005-05-20 18:36:53 |
| Message-ID: | 5b3405142791217e121ed0e38f790ac9@pgedit.com |
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On May 20, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Wei Weng wrote:
> Say if I want to add a small snip of code in front of the sql script
> generated by the pg_dump, to check for something then if the condition
> doesn't match, the script terminates right away. (Without actually
> doing the restoring stuff that the following large chunk is supposed
> to do)
>
> Can I do that?
Put this at the start of the file to make psql stop if there is an
error:
\set ON_ERROR_STOP 1
> And is it a good idea to add arbitrary code to the database dump sql
> script?
No problem if you know what you are doing and/or have good backups :)
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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