| From: | Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> |
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| To: | Joost Kraaijeveld <J(dot)Kraaijeveld(at)Askesis(dot)nl> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Can I backup/restore a database in a sql script? |
| Date: | 2007-06-22 09:09:39 |
| Message-ID: | 467B91D3.60300@archonet.com |
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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.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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