| From: | Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> | 
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| To: | H <agents(at)meddatainc(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Users Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Dropping all tables in a database | 
| Date: | 2023-08-07 01:24:50 | 
| Message-ID: | A645BF48-B811-425B-B924-0E7E094E7C46@thebuild.com | 
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> On Aug 6, 2023, at 18:17, H <agents(at)meddatainc(dot)com> wrote:
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> Is there some setting I have to change in the database to have the first SQL statement to work or have I run into a possible bug?
The first statement just generates a line of text output that contains the statement. There's nothing in it that would cause that statement to be executed.
If you want to create a statement dynamically and then execute it, you can do that with pl/pgSQL:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN
Otherwise, the solution is to do as you did: write the output to a file, trim out any extraneous lines, and then use that as a script.
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