On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:49:48AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> From: <newsreader@mediaone.net>
> > pg_dump works but I have to write
> > a shell script to dump each individual tables.
> >
> > What I meant by it does not work is like this
> >
> > pg_dump -t table1 table2 table3 database |bzip2 > database.du
>
> It's just
>
> for i in t1 t2 t3; do pg_dump -t$i mydb > $i.tbl; done
Although with a strategy like this, they're no guarantee that the
snapshot you get will be consistent. And if you're using refential
integrity it might not even restore properly.
Cheers,
Neil
