Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
Hi,
I want to write a sql script in which I backup a database and restore
a new (altered) version of that database. Is that possible? If so ,
can anyone give me an example of how to do that?
I can run it from any command prompt (psql -U postgres template1 <
my_db.backup) but I would like it to run from psql (which should
give me 1 script for all platforms I must do this: Windows, FreeBSD
and Debian)
You can restore using just psql (because pg_dump can produce an sql file
to be processed). I don't know of any way to backup a database that
doesn't use pg_dump.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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