j a ?crit :
> 
> Can someone tell my why this top script breaks with "<stdin>:5: ERROR: 
> syntax error at or near echo", but the bottom one works?  Commenting out 
> that first echo makes the error go away.
> 
> THIS GIVES ERROR:
> #!/bin/sh
> slonik <<_EOF_
>     # ----
>     # This defines which namespace the replication system uses
>     # ----
>     cluster name = $CLUSTERNAME;
>     echo 'Cluster defined';
> 
>     echo 'Node 1 removed.';
>     uninstall node (id=2);
>     echo 'Node 2 removed.';
> _EOF_
> 
> 
> THIS WORKS:
> #!/bin/sh
> slonik <<_EOF_
>     # ----
>     # This defines which namespace the replication system uses
>     # ----
>     cluster name = $CLUSTERNAME;
>     #echo 'Cluster defined';
> 
>     # ----
>     # Admin conninfo's are used by the slonik program to connect
>     # to the node databases.  So these are the PQconnectdb arguments
>     # that connect from the administrators workstation (where
>     # slonik is executed).
>     # ----
>     node 1 admin conninfo = 'dbname=$MASTERDBNAME host=$MASTERHOST 
> user=$REPLICATIONUSER';
>     node 2 admin conninfo = 'dbname=$SLAVEDBNAME host=$SLAVEHOST 
> user=$REPLICATIONUSER';
>     echo 'Nodes identified';
> 
>     # ----
>     # Uninstall both nodes
>     # ----
>     uninstall node (id=1);
>     echo 'Node 1 removed.';
>     uninstall node (id=2);
>     echo 'Node 2 removed.';
> _EOF_

Hi,

I would have said you can't do an echo statement within a slonik script. 
But that wouldn't explain why the second echo statement doesn't make the 
script fall into error.

AFAIC, I have never made slonik work with an echo statement in it.

S at S