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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it…

The command that executes a single SQL command and prints the output is the easiest, as shown here:

$ psql -c "SELECT current_time"     timetz----------------- 18:48:32.484+01(1 row)

The -c command is non-interactive. If we want to execute multiple commands, we can write those commands in a text file and then execute them using the -f option. This command loads a very small and simple set of examples:

$ psql -f examples.sql

It produces the following output when successful:

SETSETSETSETSETSETDROP SCHEMACREATE SCHEMASETSETSETCREATE TABLECREATE TABLECOPY 5COPY 3

The examples.sql script is very similar to a dump file produced by PostgreSQL backup tools, so this type of file and the output it produces are very common. When a command ...

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