Re: New user question -- alternate programmer interfaces?

You could put it in a file and feed it to psql like

psql <db-name> < codefile.sql

-Mitch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Alexander" <carl_alexander@terc.edu>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 11:49 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] New user question -- alternate programmer interfaces?


> To make a long story short, I've recently been learning PostgreSQL
> (and SQL in general) in a sort of trial-by-fire fashion.  I copied
> the .pdf of Bruce Momjian's book onto my iBook and hacked out some
> code while I was traveling on business for a couple of weeks,
> largely without benefit of connectivity to a host where I could
> test things.  Now I have about 1000 lines of doubtless very buggy
> code --- and I don't see any way to feed it to PostgreSQL for
> parsing other than to copy and paste into psql.  (Aside from the
> obvious frustrations, psql seems to lock up whenever I paste more
> than about 15 lines of code into it.)
>
> Obviously I'm missing something.  I assume there's a emacs mode for
> interacting with PostgreSQL from within emacs?  Or at least some
> way to feed PostgreSQL a text file of code and have it spit back
> debugging info?
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers!
>
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