Hi Denise!
* Ferrell, Denise D CTR NSWCDD, H11 (denise.ferrell.ctr@navy.mil) wrote:
> Using PostgreSQL v9.3 on Linux Red Hat...
>
> I've got a script that I'm running from the Linux command prompt that I need to pass 2 parameter's into the psql
scriptwithout using the VI Editor. Is there an easy way to accomplish this?
>
> psql <database> -f <scriptname> -l <log_file>
It really depends on how you want to use the variables in the script.
psql has a '-v' option which you can use to set variables that can be
used with the ':varname' syntax inside of the script, for example:
psql -v table=abc -f script.sql
Inside of script.sql you can then have ':table', like so:
select * from :table;
and that ':table' will be replaced by 'abc' when psql is run with the
'-v table=abc' parameter.
Hope that helps!
Thanks!
Stephen