Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:46:13 +0200
From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>
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To: Jean-Christophe Boggio <postgresql@thefreecat.org>
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Subject: Re: Looking for a linux tool to automate PG admin tasks
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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.

Best regards,

depesz