Re: How to dump data from database?

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:07:47AM +0400, go wrote:
> MF> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:11:20PM +0400, go wrote:
> >>
> >> I would like to "pg_dump -Fc MyDataBase>archiv.dat" ( maybe there is
> >> any SQL command or something else) .
> >> in case with COPY command I have to copy each table one by one.
>
> MF> I suppose you could write a function in a procedural language like
> MF> PL/Perl, PL/Python, or PL/Tcl that runs pg_dump, but why do you
> MF> need to do this from SQL? Why can't you just run pg_dump from
> MF> outside the database?
>
> Pls, write a small sample of the function .

Could you tell us why you want to run pg_dump from SQL? What problem
are you trying to solve?

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