On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 03:21, James Pye wrote:
> Greets,
>
> Just a thought for a psql enhancement, afiak, it is not easily possible for persistent connections to a database
ina shell script..
> The ability for psql to remain in the background reading from stdin and writing to stdout until explicitly
killed.More specifically, so a shell scriptor can have "persistent" connections to the database by calling psql
once(leavingit in the bg), and redirecting stdio through a fifo(mkfifo)(sending queries by echo > fifo, and fetching
resultsby cat fifo).
> When I have tried this in the past it will read the query, execute it, and exit when the results are cat'd from
thefifo.
Not sure if it's exactly what you are looking for, nor how well it's
still maintained, but....
I believe there is a took out there called pgbash which is a modified
version of bash that understands database queries natively. I think
it's just what you are looking for.
Check out: http://www.psn.co.jp/PostgreSQL/pgbash/index-e.html
Looks like it was updated for 7.3
Matthew