Re: pasting a lot of commands to psql

Hi Sameer,

I am trying to copy-paste (and execute) random snippets of SQL to psql
console.

There is another ways to do it, which do not involve copy-paste, but I am
wondering why is copy-paste won't work. What exactly is happening there...

Dmitry Shalashov, surfingbird.ru & relap.io

2016-07-07 20:26 GMT+03:00 Sameer Kumar <sameer(dot)kumar(at)ashnik(dot)com>:

>
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, 1:23 a.m. Dmitry Shalashov, <skaurus(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> Let say that I have some sql file with like hundred of simple statements
>> in it. I `cat` it, copy it to buffer, go to my beloved psql and insert it
>> there.
>> But somewhere after first few lines it screws over:
>>
>> b2b=> BEGIN;
>> b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','ati.su
>> ',0,NULL,5);
>> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation'b2b=> INSERT INTO
>> oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','atn.ua',0,NULL,5);
>> b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','audit-it.ru
>> ',0,NULL,5);
>> b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','aup.ru
>> ',0,NULL,5);
>> '
>> b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','autocentre.ua
>> ',0,NULL,5);
>>
>> b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','autodoc.ru
>> ',0,NULL,5);
>>
>> b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','calend.ru'
>>
>> b2b(> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','
>> calorizator.ru',0,NULL,5)
>>
>> Unclosed quotes, unclosed parenthesis - anyway it wont work.
>>
>> How to safely insert big number of statements to psql at once?
>> I am aware about "execute this file" \i option of psql, that is not the
>> answer I am looking for, thanks :-)
>>
>
> What are you exactly aiming to do?
>
> Have you tried -
> psql < myfile
>
>
>
>> Dmitry Shalashov, surfingbird.ru & relap.io
>>
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