On 03/07/2013 09:42 AM, Little, Douglas wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion Adrian,
>
> Unfortunately, my process is executing from psql, so to start pg_dump from within psql is a bit challenging.
> We have 1 instance where we start an OS process from a function, but it's new territory for us.
>
> My function is dumping everything but the ACL grant list. I currently have a function that will build and execute the grants from the acl list,
> so it's just a simple exercise to get it to dump the statements.
>
> I was just hoping that there were standard functions for doing this.
> Thanks
> doug
>
\! pg_dump... perhaps?