Re: Calling psql from a shell script

Hi Wayne,

There should be no problems using psql in shell scripts. I do it to provide
HTML output in some of my early cgi's (although I now use Perl/DBI).

I think you can get psql to squirt out the data in kinda CSV format by
setting the delimiters that it should use. It's a long time since I did
anything like that, but I think it's got something to do with the \pset
commands.

The way I do it is to pass the commands to psql through STDIN using a heredoc
inside the shell script, and then use \o to direct the output and send STDOUT
to the bit bucket. Using the -q option to psql to quiet the startup and
prompt outputs, you could do it with STDOUT directly.

Gary

On Thursday 28 June 2001 1:44 am, you wrote:
> I am writing some shell scripts that need to access Postgresql.
>
> What is the best way to select a record and have shell variables set to
> the results.
>
> Is there a way to get psql to output data in quoted CSV?
>
> TIA.
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