Re: Automating databse creation

["Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you can pass values to the scripts. Here is an example....

Suppose the script file 'test.sql' is like this:

insert into test values (:chk1 , :chk2);

Now you can pass the variables using psql as:

psql -d test -U postgres -v chk1=5 -v chk2='abc' -f test.sql

Hope that helps...

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Shoaib Mir
EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com)

On 2/9/07, Ashish Karalkar <ashish.karalkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello list,

I want to automate database creation, user creation,table creation via script. this script will be run by an external programme to postgresql server.

is there any way?

 

what i want to do is as follows:

 

 

#!/bin/sh

su - postgres

TIMEDUMP=`date +%Y%m%d"_"%H%M`

PG_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin

${PG_PATH}/pg_dump -d qsweb -U postgres -p 5432 -Ft -f /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar

echo ' Backup of Database for Quick School kept at path /usr/local/pgsql/data/backup/BACKUP_QSWEB_${TIMEDUMP}.tar'

${PG_PATH}/dropdb  -U qsweb qsweb

echo ' Old Database for Quick School Dropped'

${PG_PATH}/dropuser qsweb

echo ' Old user qsweb for Quick School Dropped'

${PG_PATH}/createuser -s qsweb

echo ' New user qsweb for Quick School created'

${PG_PATH}/createdb -O qsweb qsweb

echo ' New Database qsweb for Quick School created'

${PG_PATH}/createlang -U qsweb -d qsweb plpgsql

echo ' Database language plpgqslfor Quick School created'

echo ' Database for Quick School created. Please run the Create_Tables.sql script'

${PG_PATH}/psql -U qsweb qsweb

and then Run  Create_Tables.sql

_EOF_

 

 

is there any way??

right now the scripts stop after switching over to postgres user.

 

With regards

Ashish...