Re: How do I quit in the middle of a SQL script?

From: Mischa Sandberg <mischa(dot)sandberg(at)telus(dot)net>
To: Wei Weng <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com>, "'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 20:51:45
Message-ID: 1116622305.428e4de1790dc@webmail.telus.net
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Quoting John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>:

>
> 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 :)

You don't have to:

pg_restore mydb.dump | psql --set ON_ERROR_STOP=1

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