<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pgtksh</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.4.1 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="PostgreSQL Client Applications" HREF="reference-client.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pgtclsh" HREF="app-pgtclsh.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="psql" HREF="app-psql.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-12-22T03:48:47"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 7.4.1 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="app-pgtclsh.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="app-pgtclsh.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="app-psql.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="app-psql.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="APP-PGTKSH" ></A >pgtksh</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN45442" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >pgtksh -- <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl/Tk</SPAN > shell client </DIV ><A NAME="AEN45447" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN45449" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><P ><TT CLASS="COMMAND" >pgtksh</TT > [<VAR CLASS="REPLACEABLE" >filename</VAR > [<VAR CLASS="REPLACEABLE" >argument</VAR >...]]</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="APP-PGTKSH-DESCRIPTION" ></A ><H2 > Description </H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >pgtksh</TT > is a <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl/Tk</SPAN > shell interface extended with <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > database access functions. (Essentially, it is <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >wish</TT > with <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >libpgtcl</TT > loaded.) Like with <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >wish</TT >, the regular <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl/Tk</SPAN > shell, the first command line argument is a script file, any remaining arguments are passed to the script. Special options may be processed by the <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >X Window System</SPAN > libraries instead. If no script file is named, the shell is interactive. </P ><P > A plain <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >Tcl</SPAN > shell with <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > functions is available as <A HREF="app-pgtclsh.html" >pgtclsh</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN45471" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="app-pgtclsh.html" >pgtclsh</A >, <A HREF="pgtcl.html" >Chapter 29</A > (description of <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >libpgtcl</TT >), <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" >tclsh</SPAN ></SPAN >, <SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" >wish</SPAN ></SPAN ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="app-pgtclsh.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="app-psql.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >pgtclsh</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="reference-client.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >psql</SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >