Thread: Multiple atributes with -P switch to psql

Hi all,

Trying to get psql to produce multiple table attributes in the <table> tag when psql is used with the -H switch.

eg
TABLEOPTIONS="-P border=5 -P tableattr=width=\"80%\""
psql $DATABASEHOST -U $DATABASEUSER -d $DATABASE -q -P footer -P title=Summary -H $TABLEOPTIONS 

produces
...
<table border="5" width="80%">
...

As expected.

TABLEOPTIONS="-P border=5 -P tableattr=width=\"80%\" -P tableattr=bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\""

produces
...
<table border="5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
...

Seems to hang on to the last.

And
TABLEOPTIONS="-P border=5 -P tableattr=\"width=\"80%\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"\""

produces
...
<table border="5" "width="80%">
...

My quoting of the quotes is wrong but the point is that the quote to encapsulate the white space for the tablattr is
placedinto the HTML produced.
 

It maybe that you can only pass one table attribute or that I'm missing something.
I favour the latter.

Calls are from within a bash script.

Can anyone set me straight?

                                       version                                       
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
(1 row)

Thanks

Allan



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Hi Allan,

> TABLEOPTIONS="-P border=5 -P tableattr=width=\"80%\" -P tableattr=bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\""

> produces
 ...
> <table border="5" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
 ...

> Seems to hang on to the last.

Yes- you've said -P tableattr twice so the second one overrides the first one.

$ psql -H  -P tableattr='width="80%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"'

works for me. Carefully study my nice simple quoting: single quotes ''
around the whole
tableattr='THING' shebang and non-escaped double quotes "" for width
and bgcolor values.

Cheers,
Stuart.

Stuart,

Thanks for the reply.

You are dead right, and as expected the problem is not with psql.

> $ psql -H  -P tableattr='width="80%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"'
> 
> works for me. Carefully study my nice simple quoting: single quotes ''
> around the whole
> tableattr='THING' shebang and non-escaped double quotes "" for width
> and bgcolor values.
> 
> Cheers,
> Stuart.
> 

In my defence I did try that exact quoting, the problem is that it is being run from a script. I have thrown together
anexample to show the problem.
 
I have not yet worked to a solution.

If you know what it is I would be very greatful.

Allan


#!/bin/bash
set -x

DATABASEHOST="-h jitsnwm"
DATABASEUSER=galvuser
DATABASE=galvdb

TABLEOPTIONS="-P border=5 -P tableattr='width=\"80%\" bgcolor=\"#AFAFAF\"'"

ED=/usr/local/pgsql/bin

$ED/psql $DATABASEHOST -U $DATABASEUSER -d $DATABASE -q -P footer -P title=Summar
y -H $TABLEOPTIONS <<EOF_SQL

select version();

EOF_SQL

Produces....

postgres@jitsnwm:~/agl/sql> ./z.sh
+ DATABASEHOST=-h jitsnwm
+ DATABASEUSER=galvuser
+ DATABASE=galvdb
+ TABLEOPTIONS=-P border=5 -P tableattr='width="80%" bgcolor="#AFAFAF"'
+ ED=/usr/local/pgsql/bin
+ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -h jitsnwm -U galvuser -d galvdb -q -P footer -P title=Summary -H -P border=5 -P
'tableattr='\''width="80%"''bgcolor="#AFAFAF"'\'''
 
<table border="5" 'width="80%">
  <caption>Summary</caption>
  <tr>
    <th align="center">version</th>
  </tr>
  <tr valign="top">
    <td align="left">PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)</td>
  </tr>
</table>



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