Question

I’m new to postgreSQL and I have a simple question:

I’m trying to create a simple script that creates a DB so I can later call it like this:

psql -f createDB.sql 

I want the script to call other scripts (separate ones for creating tables, adding constraints, functions etc), like this:

\i script1.sql \i script2.sql 

It works fine provided that createDB.sql is in the same dir.

But if I move script2 to a directory under the one with createDB, and modify the createDB so it looks like this:

\i script1.sql \i somedir\script2.sql 

I get an error:

psql:createDB.sql:2: somedir: Permission denied

I’m using Postgres Plus 8.3 for windows, default postgres user.

EDIT:

Silly me, unix slashes solved the problem.

Answer 1

Postgres started on Linux/Unix. I suspect that reversing the slash with fix it.

\i somedir/script2.sql  

If you need to fully qualify something

\i c:/somedir/script2.sql 

If that doesn’t fix it, my next guess would be you need to escape the backslash.

\i somedir\\script2.sql