Re: Dropping all tables in a database

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 9:25 AM Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
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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?
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> 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.
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> If you want to create a statement dynamically and then execute it, you can do that with pl/pgSQL:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN
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> 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.

The easiest solution it to simply rely on the \gexec meta-command on
psql (see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html) which
is exactly meant for that.