Hi,
On Friday 09 February 2007 08:53, Ashish Karalkar wrote:
| I want to automate database creation, user creation,table creation via
| script. this script will be run by an external programme to postgresql
| server. is there any way?
|
| what i want to do is as follows:
|
|
| #!/bin/sh
|
| su - postgres
[rest of not working script]
| is there any way??
|
| right now the scripts stop after switching over to postgres user.
assuming the script is run as user root, you can invoke it as
su - postgres -c /path/to/script
Just remove the "su - postgres" from your script. You might want to look
at your init scripts (/etc/init.d/postgresql I assume) for how they do it.
Ciao,
Thomas
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