On Sunday 10 April 2005 03:39, Andreas Seltenreich wrote: > You can concatenate values using \set. So using > > \set importfile :importdir /test.sql > \i :importfile > > you won't have to mess with $PWD. Thanks for the tip, Andreas. But I have about a dozen sql files in the import directory, one for each table. So it's actually easier to do a cd there and run the import, than to concatenate the pathname to every single file name. However, running an install script from within psql may be the wrong approach. I might as well define and populate the database from a shell script. -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly