> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-sql-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de John DeSoi
> Envoyé : lundi 16 janvier 2006 08:51
> À : Daniel CAUNE
> Cc : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [SQL] Executing plpgsql scripts using psql, is that possible?
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Daniel CAUNE wrote:
>
> > I would like to write some administration plpgsql scripts that
> > populate some tables (dimension tables) and to execute them using
> > psql. I’m not sure that is possible with psql as it is with Oracle
> > sqlplus or SQL Server MSQuery:
>
>
> If you want to execute a plpgsql function from a file using psql,
> just call it with SELECT. So your file might have:
>
> create or replace function my_function(params integer)
> returns integer as $$
> DECLARE
> V_MyObjectID bigint;
> BEGIN
> V_MyObjectID := RegisterMyObject('a string', 'another string');
> AddObjectProperty(V_MyObjectID, 'a string');
> AddObjectProperty(V_MyObjectID, 'another string');
> ....
> END;
> $$ language plpgsql;
>
>
> SELECT my_function(1);
>
>
> and then psql -f script.sql my_db
>
Yes, but that requires creating a function while I would prefer not having do
so, as I said in my previous mail: "I mean, without creating a function that
wraps the whole, of course! :-)". Why? Actually this is not a function; this
is a script that inserts static data into dimension tables such as Country,
Language, etc.
I have several scripts responsible for creating the database and all the
objects (tables, views, constraints, indexes, user-defined functions, etc.) of
my project. I would like to have some other scripts to initialize dimension
tables, i.e. inserting static data in those tables. The idea is to automate
the whole creation and initialization of a database on a PostgreSQL server; I
already have an Ant task that searches for SQL files, orders them, and runs
them against the specified database server. The database and all relative
objects are set up in one step.
So, I completely understand that I can write an SQL script that:
1 - creates a function that wraps SQL code that inserts static data into
dimension tables.
2 - executes that function
3 - destroys that function
But actually that is a bit weird, isn't it?
Thanks,
Daniel
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