Check out your .psql_history file and \s <filename> from within psql. Robert Treat On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:53, Mike McGavin wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm searching for a quick and dirty way to have psql record the > SQL statements that I enter, especially those related to the database > structure. > > My main motivation is to help keep what will probably be a production > server up-to-date with my development server. I've thought a little > about replication, but the current options for that seem like overkill > for the relatively small database that I have. I'm particularly > interested in tracking data-definition related statements, which I > mostly tend to run through psql. (eg. Creating and altering objects, > plus the occasional insert and update thrown in.) > > > psql supports a couple of output-to-file options, but apparently not > really for what I want. eg. \o will output query results to a file, > and \w will save the current query buffer to a file. > > What I'd really like is to have the commands that I execute logged to a > file semi-automatically as I execute them, without having to remember to > save it afterwards prior to closing psql. The occasional inconsistency > won't be too important because I'll probably review it before actually > using it, but simply having an output file that contains a history of > sql statements, perhaps with commented datestamps, would be quite useful. > > If anyone with some experience could point me to a simple way to do > this, I'd appreciate it. Have I overlooked anything in particular? > > > It also occurs to me that an even more useful utility might be one that > stores the structural state of the database at a particular time (such > as when I last updated the production server), and then generate a diff > of SQL statements to update it to the current structural state. I don't > suppose this already exists anywhere, does it? > > > Thanks for any help. > Mike. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)