Adrian Klaver wrote:
On 01/17/2015 10:05 AM, Berend Tober wrote:
I often work with the output of pg_restore from a custom format dump
file. ...

Most often, I'm refactoring functions and so don't really want to drop
the function but rather want to do a "create or replace function"...

Not sure how pgAdmin does it. Just remembered something though,
pg_get_functiondef(), available in 8.4+:...

test=# SELECT pg_get_functiondef('ean_substr'::regproc);
...


That has potential. However, in some instances the object I'm refactoring will end up having dependencies, for instance for the case of views oftentimes I will have to do the drop/create for it and all dependent objects. In those situations, generating scripts from the pg_restore output is very convenient, since it tells me all the dependencies and I can adjust the listfile contents to get them all and in the correct order.

At this point I'm thinking to wrap the pg_restore invocation in a script that includes piping through sed to transform the create statements.

I would have thought that the functionality in PgAdmin and the command line utilities would rely on the same underlying source code and so support the same functionality. Alas.

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