Re: postgres on the comman line

am  22.09.2005, um 15:55:53 +0200 mailte "Michael Höller" folgendes:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I like to automate a daily check and like to run select statement via
> cron but this seems to be more tricky than I thought....
> 
> I tried the following:
> su postgres -c "select count(*) from TABLE where xxxxxx;"

- run the cron direcly as postgres
- echo "select foo from bar" | psql ...


or:

write your sql-query i a file and "psql -f file"

> 
> I have the probelm that I am allways asked for the password - I did not
> find a way how to pass the password. 

put it in the ~/.psqlrc


> 
> Also I like to direct the result to a file, I assume I can do this via >

yes, this is possible.


Regards, Andreas
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