On 2009-11-10, Antonio Ruggiero <aruggiero02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am running PostgresSQL 8.3.8 on windows XP-64Bit. I am using psql > client from the PostgreSQL installation and not the Cygwin client. > > My issue is that the command line argument "-c command" is not > recognized. For example, if I run (from Cygwin) > > psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d $database postgres -c "select count(*) > from $table_name" On windows you must put the command line arguments in the correct order (see the documentation for details of correct order) On linux (and I assume other POSIX) the order is not critical. windows command-line sucks anyway, so using pipes or temporary files for the commands is probably a better solution, especially if the commands are determined at runtime. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
