Re: Dropping all tables in a database

> On Aug 6, 2023, at 18:17, H  wrote:
> 
> Is there some setting I have to change in the database to have the first SQL statement to work or have I run into a possible bug?

The first statement just generates a line of text output that contains the statement.  There's nothing in it that would cause that statement to be executed.

If you want to create a statement dynamically and then execute it, you can do that with pl/pgSQL:

	https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN

Otherwise, the solution is to do as you did: write the output to a file, trim out any extraneous lines, and then use that as a script.