On Sun, Aug 6, 2023, 18:25 Christophe Pettus <xof@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2023, at 18:17, H <agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is there some setting I have to change in the database to have the first SQL statement to work or have I run into a possible bug?
The first statement just generates a line of text output that contains the statement. There's nothing in it that would cause that statement to be executed.
If you want to create a statement dynamically and then execute it, you can do that with pl/pgSQL:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN
Otherwise, the solution is to do as you did: write the output to a file, trim out any extraneous lines, and then use that as a script.
Or in psql execute it using the \gexec meta-command instead of a semi-colon.
David J.
