Re: Can't seem to get Psql and Exec to work together

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 05:30, YC Nyon wrote:
> I am trying to run Postgresql's psql using Exec() command.
> The code is below
>
> <?
> $convert_sql_2 = "\"C:\postgresql\bin\psql.exe -d Geoprocessing -f
> C:\\postgresql\\bin\\g126.sql";
> exec($convert_sql_2,$ds);
> ?>
>
> It didn't insert the data I hope it would. I tested it from the dos command
> line and it works fine.
> also i used
> $convert_sql_2 = "\"C:\postgresql\bin\psql.exe --help";
> passthru($convert_sql_2,$ds);
> It works, giving me the help options.

I know that if I tried such foolery on Linux it would not let me because
it would be a different user running the psql - one which was not
allowed to access the database.

Presumably on "DOS" the same sort of thing is happening.

Why not use the pgsql module in PHP and run your commands into
PostgreSQL directly anyway? Doing it the way you suggest here just
seems a recipe for a disaster!

Regards,
Andrew.
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