Hi Denise! * Ferrell, Denise D CTR NSWCDD, H11 (denise.ferrell.ctr@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > Using PostgreSQL v9.3 on Linux Red Hat... > > I've got a script that I'm running from the Linux command prompt that I need to pass 2 parameter's into the psql script without using the VI Editor. Is there an easy way to accomplish this? > > psql <database> -f <scriptname> -l <log_file> It really depends on how you want to use the variables in the script. psql has a '-v' option which you can use to set variables that can be used with the ':varname' syntax inside of the script, for example: psql -v table=abc -f script.sql Inside of script.sql you can then have ':table', like so: select * from :table; and that ':table' will be replaced by 'abc' when psql is run with the '-v table=abc' parameter. Hope that helps! Thanks! Stephen
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