PostgreSQL - query from bash script as database user 'postgres'

Question

I have a table in my PostgreSQL database which has 3 columns - c_uid, c_defaults and c_settings. c_uid simply stores the

Answer 1

To ans to @Jason 's question, in my bash script, I've dome something like this (for my purpose):

dbPass='xxxxxxxx'
.....
## Connect to the DB
PGPASSWORD=${dbPass} psql -h ${dbHost} -U ${myUsr} -d ${myRdb} -P pager=on --set AUTOCOMMIT=off

The another way of doing it is:

psql --set AUTOCOMMIT=off --set ON_ERROR_STOP=on -P pager=on \
     postgresql://${myUsr}:${dbPass}@${dbHost}/${myRdb}

but you have to be very careful about the password: I couldn't make a password with a ' and/or a : to work in that way. So gave up in the end.

-S