Running simple SQL commands on the command line
http://www.peterbe.com/plog/rundotsql/rundotsql.py7th of January 2005
In my Zope usage I use a lot of SQL stored on the filesystem. These files contain DTML syntax and parameters like ZSQL Method objects inside the ZODB. Sometimes, to test the SQL code I have in these files I want to run it on the command line. To be able to do that I've written this little Python script which is placed in my ~/bin directory in Linux. It only works with PostgreSQL at the moment but people who like the idea and prefer Oracle or MySQL could probably find where to make their changes. (The psql -f command is the ticket)
Example foo.sql:
<params>id=1 name</params> SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE id = <dtml-sqlvar id type="int"> AND name = <dtml-sqlvar name type="string">
Which is run like this:
peterbe@trillian:~ $ rundotsql.py -U peterbe testdb foo.sql
If you run the command:
peterbe@trillian:~ $ rundotsql.py -h
then you'll hopefully understand how it works. If you have specified the database connection string once you won't have to do it again unless you're changing database. If you want to test your SQL but without committing anything for real to the database you can run it like this:
peterbe@trillian:~ $ rundotsql.py --test delete_everything.sql
It will wrap the SQL in a BEGIN and ROLLBACK command.
Have a play with it if you might find it useful. Please let me know of any problems or ideas you have. The DTML "rendering" is dead-stupid. It's NOT using the real Zope DTML rendering engine; rather, it's using some simple regular expressions.