On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Marc Tardif wrote:
> Is ther any way to foresee if a database exists or if a user has
> permission to read/write a database from within a shell script?
The best (and as far as I know the only) way to determine whether you have
access to something is to try to access it. Anything else is destined for
failure some place.
Not tested, but it seems that testing like
psql -c "UPDATE foo SET a = 1 WHERE 5=6"
is sufficient and harmless. (I think psql might also return a non-zero
exit status if this fails.)
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