Re: pgsql-server/ oc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml oc/sr ...

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:33:18PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:25:03PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:58:25AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > > That's why I am thinking of some wrapper that will loop through the
> > > > > databases and run psql commands.
> > > >
> > > > Written on what language?
> > >
> > > Written in C as a command-line utility.
> >
> > Then why not use libpq directly?  Seems safer than depending on $PATH
> > and who knows what else.
>
> I guess you could do it in libpq, but how do you access that from the
> command line.  All these vacuumdb-like utilities are for the command
> line.

The same way dropuser.c and the like are all accessed now.  (Peter
changed the script versions for C versions using libpq, not calling
libpq... I just checked.)

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