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+PgSanity checks the syntax of PostgreSQL SQL files.
+
+It does this by leveraging the ecpg command which is traditionally used
+for preparing C files with embedded SQL for compilation. However, as
+part of that preparation, ecpg checks the embedded SQL statements for
+syntax errors using the exact same parser that is in PostgreSQL.
+
+So the approach that PgSanity takes is to take a file that has a list of
+bare SQL in it, make that file look like a C file with embedded SQL, run
+it through ecpg and let ecpg report on the syntax errors of the SQL.