Re: psql scripting tutorials

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Artacus <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: psql scripting tutorials
Date: 2008-09-10 19:47:42
Message-ID: dcc563d10809101247i68fdd130tef2536c86a5d362f@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Artacus <artacus(at)comcast(dot)net> wrote:
> Artacus wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to learn a little more about writing psql scripts does anyone
>> know of any resources outside of the manual?
>
> Ok then. Does anyone have any tips or best practices for scripting psql?
>
> I'll probably write some bash scripts to pull csv files over then script
> psql to do a COPY into an import schema then run a pl/pgsql procedure, er
> function, to do all ETL.

This sounds a lot like what I did in my last job using bash for most
things, and php for the more complicated stuff. Wrote a simple oracle
to pgsql table replicator in php that worked pretty well.

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