Re: postgres on the comman line

O "Michael Hφller" έγραψε στις Sep 22, 2005 :

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> 
> 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;"

Firstoff, 'select' is nor a unix command, neither
a postgresql program.
So you need something like:

su postgres -c "psql -c 'select count(*) from TABLE where xxxxxx'"

If you are the only one with an account on the machine
then you might try to tweak ~postgres/data/pg_hba.conf
and set method 'trust' for local access (no tcpip,psql without the -h 
option) .

Also you could set env variables PGPASSWORD, PGUSER.

> 
> I have the probelm that I am allways asked for the password - I did not
> find a way how to pass the password. 
> 
> Also I like to direct the result to a file, I assume I can do this via >
> but not haveing passed the first problem I did not check this. 
> 
> I am happy for every hint
> 
> Thanks a lot 
> Michael
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