Sometimes you have an SQL-Statement that you want to run on all the databases on your server. Here is the run_sql_on_all_databases.pl script to do so:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DBI; my $driver = "Pg"; my $database = "postgres"; my $dsn = "DBI:$driver:dbname=$database"; my $userid = "sql-ledger"; my $password = ""; my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, $userid, $password, { RaiseError => 1 } ) or die $DBI::errstr; sub run_queries_on_all_dbs { my @queries = @_; my $max_query_length = 0; for my $query (@queries) { $max_query_length = length($query) if length($query) > $max_query_length; } printf "+-%-30s-+-%-10s-+-%-${max_query_length}s-+\n", "-" x 30, "-" x 10, "-" x $max_query_length; printf "| %-30s | %-10s | %-${max_query_length}s |\n", "Database Name", "Rows", "Query"; printf "+-%-30s-+-%-10s-+-%-${max_query_length}s-+\n", "-" x 30, "-" x 10, "-" x $max_query_length; my $dbs = $dbh->selectcol_arrayref("SELECT datname FROM pg_database WHERE datistemplate = false;"); for my $db (@$dbs) { my $database_dsn = "DBI:$driver:dbname=$db"; my $dbh = DBI->connect( $database_dsn, $userid, $password, { RaiseError => 0, PrintError => 0 } ); if ( !$dbh ) { warn "Failed to connect to database '$db'. Error: $DBI::errstr\n"; next; } for my $query (@queries) { my $rv = $dbh->do($query); if ( !defined $rv ) { warn "Failed to run query on database '$db'. Error: $DBI::errstr\n"; } else { printf "| %-30s | %-10d | %-${max_query_length}s |\n", substr( $db, 0, 30 ), $rv, $query; } } $dbh->disconnect(); } # Print table footer printf "+-%-30s-+-%-10s-+-%-${max_query_length}s-+\n", "-" x 30, "-" x 10, "-" x $max_query_length; } run_queries_on_all_dbs( "DELETE FROM gl WHERE id NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT trans_id FROM acc_trans)", ); $dbh->disconnect();