Thanks again Susan. I agree that this is truly a shell scripting question.
I placed it here because I was hoping that someone (like yourself :) ) would
have easy examples of other things they've done in the psql space.
I actually did want to insert a litteral version of the variable. I found
Thanks Susan... I really appreciate your answer and helping me do what I
wanted to do...
I posted the code I was working on here...
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/paul/
It's a pretty cool script and although it's not even done yet, I'm sure it
could be useful to anyone wanting to do the
I wonder if I could ask another question on this thread...
How would i get the latest ID value of a table in psql and then use that
value as part of an insert statement...
For example...
I would like ot declare a variable in a shell script and then use that value
in the insert statement later
What's stopping you from using the variable? It works fine for me.
The only problem I see is that you are quoting an integer value (SELECT
'$SERVERCOLLECTIONTIMEID', column1 FROM mytable;) for no reason (leave off
the single quotes around $SERVERCOLLECTIONTIMEID), although it does not
seem to
Hello,
I would like to create a shell script that would populate two variables with
the return of a SELECT statement that would return two attributes...
For example...
#!/bin/bash
SERVER_NAMES=`psql Admin -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -cSELECT servername,
instanceport from server where
You should be able to use something like this in a bash script:
psql -U postgres -hMYSERVER --quiet --no-align --field-separator ' ' -t -c
SELECT servername,instanceport from server where serverclass = 3 and
isactive = 'True' Admin |
while read -a SVRDATA ;do
echo name: ${SVRDATA[0]} port:
