Message-ID: <248dbae08b024e035a3ef1811d20f8defa8f232c.camel@cybertec.at>
Subject: Re: Executing INSERTs from a file but with a wait delay.
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: "Subramanian,Ramachandran" <ramachandran.subramanian@alte-leipziger.de>,
  "pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org"	 <pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:58:07 +0200
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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=C2=A0 run_in=
serts.sql .
> =C2=A0
> I run it with=C2=A0 psql -p 5432 -f run_inserts.sql.
> =C2=A0
> =C2=A0
> My wish is to find a way to execute it, but I want it to wait after each =
INSERT =C2=A0till I hit Enter .
> =C2=A0
> =C2=A0
> I could use pg_sleep , but that is a preset value..=C2=A0 I want to make =
it wait indefinitely till I hit enter.
> =C2=A0
> Is this even possible?=C2=A0 Thank you in advance for your help.