Re: pasting a lot of commands to psql

> \i your_file_name

I actually mentioned this way in my original posting. In my case it would involve copy-paste anyway - to create a file on a system where I have psql opened.

I may do it that way. But why copy-paste directly to psql results in this behaviour?

Dmitry Shalashov, surfingbird.ru & relap.io

2016-07-07 20:30 GMT+03:00 Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@gmail.com>:

This might seem a bit basic, but as long as you have a psql session, why not just use

\i your_file_name 

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Sameer Kumar <sameer.kumar@ashnik.com> wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, 1:23 a.m. Dmitry Shalashov, <skaurus@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone.

Let say that I have some sql file with like hundred of simple statements in it. I `cat` it, copy it to buffer, go to my beloved psql and insert it there.

But somewhere after first few lines it screws over: 

b2b=> BEGIN;

b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','ati.su',0,NULL,5);

INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation'b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','atn.ua',0,NULL,5);

b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','audit-it.ru',0,NULL,5);

b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','aup.ru',0,NULL,5);

'

b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','autocentre.ua',0,NULL,5);

b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','autodoc.ru',0,NULL,5);

b2b=> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','calend.ru'

b2b(> INSERT INTO oko_topsites VALUES('russian_federation','calorizator.ru',0,NULL,5)

Unclosed quotes, unclosed parenthesis - anyway it wont work.

How to safely insert big number of statements to psql at once?

I am aware about "execute this file" \i option of psql, that is not the answer I am looking for, thanks :-)

What are you exactly aiming to do?

Have you tried -

psql  < myfile

Dmitry Shalashov, surfingbird.ru & relap.io

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>...I `cat` it, copy it to buffer, go to my beloved psql and insert it there.

This might seem a bit basic, but as long as you have a psql session, why not just use

\i your_file_name 

No need to cat, copy & paste!

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