Re: Looking for a linux tool to automate PG admin tasks

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 03:17:16PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Boggio wrote:
> Hello,
> I have several servers with many databases on them for different
> applications.
> I need to execute some tasks on some databases depending on some criteria.
> For example, execute query xxx but only on databases where table
> public.sometable exists or if number of rows in table yyy is > 1M.
> Before reinventing the wheel with ugly bash scripts, do you know of some
> tools that would suit my case ?
> Some tasks will have to execute periodically (with crons probably) and
> others will be one-off.
> CLI tools if possible because I'm working remotely on those servers of
> course.

Well, I'd just use psql, with some simple script using \gexec
functionality. Solves virtually any problem of this kind.

Ditto.  bash scripts are only ugly if you write ugly bash.

--

Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce.

Don't boil me, I'm still alive.

<Redacted> lobster!