Re: help on automatically running sql files

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 01:33, Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) wrote:
> Hi all,
> For the project that I am working on , we are using Postgresql 7.4.3 on
> Linux 7.2. We have all the database tables,triggers and stored procedures as
> seperate .sql files which we want to ship as part of our software. Now when
> the user installs our software, we need to check if postmaster service is
> running or not and if it is running, then we have to run the sql files
> automatically. Can anyone help me out on how to run the .sql files
> automatically.

Something like psql dbname <sqlfile.sql will do.  If psql isn't in the
path, then /path/to/psql dbname <sqlfile.sql