Re: psql scripting tutorials

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Artacus <artacus@comcast.net> wrote:
> Artacus wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to learn a little more about writing psql scripts does anyone
>> know of any resources outside of the manual?
>
> Ok then. Does anyone have any tips or best practices for scripting psql?
>
> I'll probably write some bash scripts to pull csv files over then script
> psql to do a COPY into an import schema then run a pl/pgsql procedure, er
> function, to do all ETL.

This sounds a lot like what I did in my last job using bash for most
things, and php for the more complicated stuff.  Wrote a simple oracle
to pgsql table replicator in php that worked pretty well.