I wonder if I could ask another question on this thread... How would i get the latest ID value of a table in psql and then use that value as part of an insert statement... For example... I would like ot declare a variable in a shell script and then use that value in the insert statement later in the script... 1) set the variable... SERVERCOLLECTIONTIMEID = `psql Admin -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -c"INSERT INTO servercollectiontime(batchtime) VALUES('$BATCHTIME'); SELECT currval('servercollectiontime_servercollectiontimeid_seq');"` 2) use the variable... psql -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -c"SELECT '$SERVERCOLLECTIONTIMEID', column1 FROM mytable;" The reason why I want to use the variable is because I want to eventually insert that data into a table that is looking for that ID value. Thanks in Advance... Paul Silveira wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to create a shell script that would populate two variables > with the return of a SELECT statement that would return two attributes... > > For example... > > #!/bin/bash > SERVER_NAMES=`psql Admin -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -c"SELECT servername, > instanceport from server where serverclass = 3 and isactive = 'True' ";` > > > As you can see, I'm returning the servername "and" the instanceport from > the server table. This will later allow me to create psql commands to > connect to each server dynamically. > > I had the script working correctly when I was just running it for the > server name as below... > #!/bin/bash > SERVER_NAMES=`psql Admin -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -c"SELECT servername > from server where serverclass = 3 and isactive = 'True' ";` > > > Does anyone know the easiest way to get both values out of some variables > that I could set? > > Later in the script, I'm creating a for loop and iterating through the > server names and would like to build connection strings dynamically with > the results from the select string... > > > > for i in $SERVER_NAMES > do > psql -Upostgres -h$i -p$i -A -t -c"SELECT '$i', '$BATCHTIME', name, > setting, category, short_desc, context, vartype, source, min_val, max_val > FROM pg_settings;" | psql Admin -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -c"COPY > serverconfigsetting FROM STDIN WITH DELIMITER '|' NULL AS '';" > echo "Done with $i" > done > > > As you can see I have "-h$i -p$i" in the script for the host and port. > Again the script worked fine when I just had the -h@i in there... > > I know that the current forloop is incorrect specifiying the $i twice but > I just put that in there to show an example of what I was hoping to do... > It would probably be more accessing the array value like -h$i[0:0] > -p$i[0:1] in pseudo code for accessing array values. > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > > > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/shell-script-to-populate-array-values-tf2796502.html#a7844387 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.