Re: Creating tables from files

I am not entirely sure what you want to do but I think that what you
are looking for is the -f flag to psql.

Let's say you had a file (create.sql) that had:

CREATE TABLE foo (
bar SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
baz text
);

and you wanted to load this into the processdata database. The
command would look like this:

psql processdata -f create.sql

See man psql for more information, and fire up psql and do /? and
check out the /i command it does the same thing.

I hope this is helpful,
Jason Earl

Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> writes:

> Rather embarrassing to have to ask this, but I forget how to do it
> and I cannot find the directions in the available docs; I know it's
> there somewhere but I'm just not seeing it.
>
> I have a series of 'create table' definitions in a text file. I
> want to read this into postgres to create the tables, rather than
> re-keying them by hand from within the program. INSERT works on rows
> and COPY works on values. What I'm trying to do is create the
> entire database from a schema worked out in a file.
>
> I would greatly appreciate a pointer to the proper command and the
> manual in which I can read the syntax and, I hope, remember it for
> the next time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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>
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