Re: Scripting function definitions as SQL?

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:28:37AM -0700, Postgres User wrote:
> Unfortunately I didn't see a way to tell pg_dump to dump only objects
> of a specific type, like functions or sequences. It requires
> additional coding to parse the output and that's less than ideal...

hmmm .. "additional coding" seems a bit too much for a simple thing like
this:
pg_dump -s | perl -ne 'print if /^CREATE FUNCTION test_it/../^\s+LANGUAGE/'

of course it would be cool to have switch to do it, but hey - it hardly
even qualifies as one-liner. it's more "an expression" than code.

depesz

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