Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] bash & postgres

2009-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Jones writes: > On Mar 23, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The reason you have to do this is that psql doesn't recognize >> backslash commands in a -c string. There's a school of thought that >> doesn't want us to allow multiple commands in a -c string, even. > Hmm... Apparently it doe

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] bash & postgres

2009-03-23 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 23, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Erik Jones writes: On Mar 22, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Greenhorn wrote: How do I use \c (or any other psql commands beginning with a "\") in a bash script? For multi-line input to a psql call in a bash (or any decent shell) script, I'd use a here do