Re: executing a sql script

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 22:09 -0800, johnf wrote:
> I'm using python and can execute standard "select,update,delete,functions".
> What I'd like to do is execute a sql script (a text file). But I don't know
> how?

You need to open the text file and pass it as an argument:

try:
file = "%s/%s" % (str(sqlpath),str("myfile.sql"))
procedures = open(file,'r').read()
dbcur.execute(procedures)
except psycopg2.DatabaseError, e:
print
print "EXCEPTION: procedures :%s" % str(e)
print
exit(1)

> Some thing like:
> import psycopg2
> import psycopg2.extensions
> conn = psycopg2.connect("host=%s dbname=%s user =%s password
> =%s " %(self.pgSqlHostID.Value,self.pgSqlDatabaseID.Value,self.pgSqlUserID.Value,self.msSqlPasswordID.Value))
>
> conn.set_isolation_level(psycopg2.extensions.ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)
> tempCursor= conn.cursor()
> try:
> tempCursor.execute("run script %s " % FileNameScript)
> tempCursor.execute('commit')
> --
> John Fabiani
>
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