On Thursday 10 August 2006 07:12, David Leangen wrote: | > ALTER USER foo with encrypted password 'bar'; | > CREATE USER foo; | > CREATE DATABASE bar owner foo; | | That makes perfect sense, but how can I do this from the shell? Is | there an easy way to wrap these so I can send them to postgres from | the shell? yes; the following should work: #!/bin/bash psql <<_EOT_ ALTER USER foo with encrypted password 'bar'; CREATE USER foo; CREATE DATABASE bar owner foo; _EOT_ Ciao, Thomas -- Thomas Pundt <thomas.pundt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- http://rp-online.de/ ----