Re: many sql file and one transaction

2011/10/18 salah jubeh <s_jubeh(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
> Hello,
> Thanks for the reply.
> I considered  cat as an option but I did not go for it, because of the
> number of sql files I have is large  which makes the code not readable
> The second thing, which is more important is because I have some advantages
> with  using -f such as the line number which causing the error.

you can do :

cat module1.sql \
module2.sql \
module_etc.sql \
| psql -f -

> Regards
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> ________________________________
> From: "andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de" <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de>
> To: salah jubeh <s_jubeh(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction
>
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> Zitat von salah jubeh <s_jubeh(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have many SQL script files to update schema, delete data, unit
>> test ....etc.  I want to run all the files in one transaction using
>> shell script to ease the installation procedure. I can do that from
>> the psql client by using the \i option
>>
>>
>> BEGIN;
>>
>> \i  / .../ module1.sql
>>
>> \i  / .../ module2.sql
>>
>> \i  / .../ module_etc.sql
>> COMMIT;
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to do that  using psql command  shell script.
>>
>>
>> I.E.
>>
>> I want to run the following  in one transaction,
>>
>> psql  -f  module1.sql
>>
>> psql  -f  module2.sql
>>
>> psql  -f  module_etc.sql
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> cat module1.sql module2.sql module_etc.sql | psql
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> Regards, Andreas
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