Hi Michael,
On Thursday 22 September 2005 15:55, Michael Höller wrote:
| I like to automate a daily check and like to run select statement via
| cron but this seems to be more tricky than I thought....
|
| I tried the following:
| su postgres -c "select count(*) from TABLE where xxxxxx;"
you mean
su - postgres -c "echo 'select count(*) from TABLE where xxxxxx;'|psql"
?
| I have the probelm that I am allways asked for the password - I did not
| find a way how to pass the password.
search the documentation for the .pgpass file. It should contain lines
with colon separated values consisting of host:port:database:user:password
and must not be world-readable.
| Also I like to direct the result to a file, I assume I can do this via >
| but not haveing passed the first problem I did not check this.
yes.
Ciao,
Thomas
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