Re: How do I quit in the middle of a SQL script?

From: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
To: Wei Weng <wweng(at)kencast(dot)com>
Cc: "'pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How do I quit in the middle of a SQL script?
Date: 2005-05-20 18:36:53
Message-ID: 5b3405142791217e121ed0e38f790ac9@pgedit.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-sql


On May 20, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Wei Weng wrote:

> Say if I want to add a small snip of code in front of the sql script
> generated by the pg_dump, to check for something then if the condition
> doesn't match, the script terminates right away. (Without actually
> doing the restoring stuff that the following large chunk is supposed
> to do)
>
> Can I do that?

Put this at the start of the file to make psql stop if there is an
error:

\set ON_ERROR_STOP 1

> And is it a good idea to add arbitrary code to the database dump sql
> script?

No problem if you know what you are doing and/or have good backups :)

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-sql by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Scott Marlowe 2005-05-20 18:42:58 Re: Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as
Previous Message Keith Worthington 2005-05-20 18:27:35 Re: Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as