pg_dump in cycle

yes, but how can I integrate that query with shell script (which will
perform actual dumping) ?

I would even say, "select datname from pg_database where not
datistemplate", becuase otherwise pg_dump will complain about template0

Cheers,
Ilia Chipitsine

Use pg_dump instead of pg_dumpall

example:
pg_dump databaseName > databaseDumpFile

if u have many databases, you can make a script that dumps each database in
it's own file ....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

U can use :
select datname from pg_database;

in order to get the list of databses

HTH

Najib.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel@usj.edu.lb>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

Use pg_dump instead of pg_dumpall

example:
pg_dump databaseName > databaseDumpFile

if u have many databases, you can make a script that dumps each database

in

sure, I have many databases.
how can I write such script without explicitly specifying database names ?
I do not want to modify that script after I have added database.

it's own file ....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

Dear Sirs,

I want to dump all databases, but separately each database in its own
file, not all databases in one single file as pg_dumpall does.

How can I implement that ?

Cheers,
Ilia Chipitsine

---------------------------(end of

broadcast)---------------------------

Check out the "psql " command.
U can use :

psql -l

which outputs sometinhg like
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
-----------------+-----------+-----------
dragon_devel | ptufenkji | UNICODE
dragon_devel_v2 | ptufenkji | UNICODE
dragon_joujou | ptufenkji | UNICODE
dragon_prod | ptufenkji | UNICODE
fgm | gnakhle | UNICODE
fgm_eval | ptufenkji | UNICODE
hotline | postgres | UNICODE
template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
usj | ptufenkji | UNICODE

for the shell script and do some text filtering in order to retrieve the
databse names.

(Or may be u can do a connection to the database from the shell script i am
not sure: i don't have a big experience in shell scripting)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel@usj.edu.lb>
Cc: "generalpost" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

yes, but how can I integrate that query with shell script (which will
perform actual dumping) ?

I would even say, "select datname from pg_database where not
datistemplate", becuase otherwise pg_dump will complain about template0

Cheers,
Ilia Chipitsine

U can use :
select datname from pg_database;

in order to get the list of databses

HTH

Najib.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel@usj.edu.lb>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

Use pg_dump instead of pg_dumpall

example:
pg_dump databaseName > databaseDumpFile

if u have many databases, you can make a script that dumps each

database

in

sure, I have many databases.
how can I write such script without explicitly specifying database

names ?

This seems to be more interesting for shell scripting:

psql -d DatabaseName -c 'select datname from pg_database where not
datistemplate' ;

datname
-----------------
fgm_eval
hotline
usj
dragon_devel
dragon_joujou
dragon_devel_v2
dragon_prod
fgm
(8 rows)

Cheers.
Najib.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel@usj.edu.lb>
To: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
Cc: "generalpost" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

Check out the "psql " command.
U can use :

psql -l

which outputs sometinhg like
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
-----------------+-----------+-----------
dragon_devel | ptufenkji | UNICODE
dragon_devel_v2 | ptufenkji | UNICODE
dragon_joujou | ptufenkji | UNICODE
dragon_prod | ptufenkji | UNICODE
fgm | gnakhle | UNICODE
fgm_eval | ptufenkji | UNICODE
hotline | postgres | UNICODE
template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
usj | ptufenkji | UNICODE

for the shell script and do some text filtering in order to retrieve the
databse names.

(Or may be u can do a connection to the database from the shell script i

am

not sure: i don't have a big experience in shell scripting)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel@usj.edu.lb>
Cc: "generalpost" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

yes, but how can I integrate that query with shell script (which will
perform actual dumping) ?

I would even say, "select datname from pg_database where not
datistemplate", becuase otherwise pg_dump will complain about template0

Cheers,
Ilia Chipitsine

U can use :
select datname from pg_database;

in order to get the list of databses

HTH

Najib.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <nabifadel@usj.edu.lb>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

Use pg_dump instead of pg_dumpall

example:
pg_dump databaseName > databaseDumpFile

if u have many databases, you can make a script that dumps each

database

in

sure, I have many databases.
how can I write such script without explicitly specifying database

names ?

I do not want to modify that script after I have added database.

it's own file ....

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Chipitsine" <ilia@paramon.ru>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:08 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] pg_dump in cycle

Dear Sirs,

I want to dump all databases, but separately each database in its

own

* Najib Abi Fadel:
| This seems to be more interesting for shell scripting:
|
| psql -d DatabaseName -c 'select datname from pg_database where not
| datistemplate' ;
|
| datname
| -----------------
| fgm_eval
| hotline
| usj
| dragon_devel
| dragon_joujou
| dragon_devel_v2
| dragon_prod
| fgm
| (8 rows)

$ psql -ltA | cut -d'|' -f1 | grep -v '^template' | xargs -i pg_dump -f {}.pg_dump {}
--
-- PostgreSQL database dump complete
--

--
-- PostgreSQL database dump complete
--

$ ls -l *.pg_dump
-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres users 493 2004-09-17 14:00 foo.pg_dump
-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres users 3326 2004-09-17 14:00 test.pg_dump

--
Lars Haugseth