On Nov 21, 2007 10:49 AM, Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gauthier, Dave wrote: > > APparently, from "man psql", -c can do only one thing at a time. But you could do this with 2-3 commands (or 1 if you want to wrap the 2 up in a shell script or something). Here's an example... > [snip] > > psql --dbname mydb -c "\i create_try.sql;" > > psql --dbname mydb -c "select trythis('foo');" > > psql --dbname mydb -c "drop function trythis(varchar);" > > Or just put everything in one file and use -f <filename> And from the more than one way to skin a cat department: cat my.sql | psql mydb psql mydb < my.sql ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: 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