Re: how to read do the psq \i command

Alonso García wrote:
> Hi list:
> Recently I installed postgresql 8.0, marvellous; and
> I've been studying the tutorial. I got stuck in
> chapter 2 "The SQL languaje". There, it says that in
> order to read sql commands stored in a file you can
> type:
> mydb=> \i basics.sql
>
> So I create a file named CreateTable_weather.sql but
> it didn't work, shows a message:
> "CreateTable_weather.sql:No such file or directory".
> I change the working directory and put there the sql
> archive but neither worked.

This works fine with 7.4.2 under Linux:

weaver% cat >tmp.sql
select count(*) from addressbook;
weaver% psql
Welcome to psql 7.4.2, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

swampler=# \i tmp.sql
count
-------
148
(1 row)

swampler=# \q

Have you tried a simple test (like the above)? I haven't upgraded to
8.0 yet because of some dependencies I have with patches on JDBC in
7.4.2, but I wouldn't have expected this to break...

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