On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 18:25 Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> wrote:
> > > > On Aug 6, 2023, at 18:17, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote: > > > > Is there some setting I have to change in the database to have the first > SQL statement to work or have I run into a possible bug? > > The first statement just generates a line of text output that contains the > statement. There's nothing in it that would cause that statement to be > executed. > > If you want to create a statement dynamically and then execute it, you can > do that with pl/pgSQL: > > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN > > Otherwise, the solution is to do as you did: write the output to a file, > trim out any extraneous lines, and then use that as a script. > Or in psql execute it using the \gexec meta-command instead of a semi-colon. David J. >
