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Subject: Re: Looking for a linux tool to automate PG admin tasks
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:11:37 -0400
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM hubert depesz lubaczewski <[email protected]>
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> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 03:17:16PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Boggio wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have several servers with many databases on them for different
> > applications.
> > I need to execute some tasks on some databases depending on some
> criteria.
> > For example, execute query xxx but only on databases where table
> > public.sometable exists or if number of rows in table yyy is > 1M.
> > Before reinventing the wheel with ugly bash scripts, do you know of some
> > tools that would suit my case ?
> > Some tasks will have to execute periodically (with crons probably) and
> > others will be one-off.
> > CLI tools if possible because I'm working remotely on those servers of
> > course.
>
> Well, I'd just use psql, with some simple script using \gexec
> functionality. Solves virtually any problem of this kind.
>
Ditto. bash scripts are only ugly if you write ugly bash.
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