I was under the impression that I could start a psql -f pipe and then
feed it commands through the pipe using echo, and expect it to hang from
one command to the next. Of course, this doesn't work -- my guess is
that echo sends an EOF after the line I send, so psql sees the EOF in
the pipe and
* Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080327 12:58]:
I was under the impression that I could start a psql -f pipe and then
feed it commands through the pipe using echo, and expect it to hang from
one command to the next. Of course, this doesn't work -- my guess is
that echo sends an EOF after
Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
I've had to use:
while (true); do cat pipe; done | psql
The trick is that pipes EOFs everytime the cleint closes it. (Not
strictly true, but it appears that way to basic read()ers).
Ah! Yeah, I knew that and forgot :-) It's easier than that actually --
you
* Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080327 13:51]:
Ah! Yeah, I knew that and forgot :-) It's easier than that actually --
you just need to keep the pipe open in another process. So I can do
this: first open a terminal with
$ psql -f foo
And then, in another terminal,
$ cat foo
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was under the impression that I could start a psql -f pipe and then
feed it commands through the pipe using echo, and expect it to hang from
one command to the next. Of course, this doesn't work -- my guess is
that echo sends an EOF after the line I
