Re: comments in load scripts

On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 21:39, Aurangzeb M. Agha wrote:
> I have two questions regarding using load scripts to create and populate
> my DB.
>
> I use the following command to create my DB with a script which has a lot
> of create statements in it:
>
> %> psql testDB < loadTestDB.sql
>
> Question 1: Is this the best way to create my DB? I know there's a pg_dump
> command, but is there some kind of a pgload I should be using instead?

This is fine

> Secondly, my create and populate scripts are very long. When running the
> populate script, I get a ton of output with Insert OID statements:
>
> ...
> INSERT 30094 1
> INSERT 30095 1
> INSERT 30096 1
> INSERT 30097 1
> INSERT 30098 1
> ...
>
> Is there any way I can put comments into my load scripts so that I can get
> an indication of the progress the load is making.

You can put SQL comments in your script:

-- This is a comment (preceded by a double hyphen)

You can see these comments and the commands being executed by running
psql with the -e option:

%> psql -e -d testDB < loadTestDB.sql

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