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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Subramanian,Ramachandran <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>
To: pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Executing INSERTs from a file but with a wait delay.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:58:07 +0200
Message-ID: <248dbae08b024e035a3ef1811d20f8defa8f232c.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebf0d5681be44a72807aca0ee6b0e1ea@alte-leipziger.de>
References: <ebf0d5681be44a72807aca0ee6b0e1ea@alte-leipziger.de>

On Tue, 2026-04-14 at 08:17 +0000, Subramanian,Ramachandran wrote:
> Let us say that I have 10 Insert statements in a file called  run_inserts.sql .
>  
> I run it with  psql -p 5432 -f run_inserts.sql.
>  
>  
> My wish is to find a way to execute it, but I want it to wait after each INSERT  till I hit Enter .
>  
>  
> I could use pg_sleep , but that is a preset value..  I want to make it wait indefinitely till I hit enter.
>  
> Is this even possible?  Thank you in advance for your help.

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