Re: psql scripting tutorials

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From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org>
> Kevin Hunter wrote:
> > At 7:13am -0400 on Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> >> Nice trick, but when I try the following variant:
> >>
> >> psql -v TEST=16 -c 'select :TEST as "input"'
> >>
> >> I get [a syntax error]
> >
> >> This seems to be contrary to the psql manual page:
> >
> > Nope. Take a look at the -c option. Specifically "Thus you cannot mix
> > SQL and psql meta-commands with this option."
> >
> > You might try shell interpretation:
> >
> > $ TEST=16; psql -c "select $TEST as \"input1\";"
> > $ TEST=16; echo "select $TEST as \"input1\";" | psql
>
> Whatever happened to pgbash? I see the last update was Feb 2003 but
> that was for Pg v7.3.
>
>
> Rod
> --
> >
> > Kevin
> >
>
>

See also:
http://www.edlsystems.com/shellsql/
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/plsh/
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Adrian Klaver
aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net