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From A. Kretschmer
Subject Re: Is there a way to backup Postgres via SQL commands?
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In response to Is there a way to backup Postgres via SQL commands?  (Frank Church <voipfc@googlemail.com>)
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In response to Frank Church :
> Are there SQL commands that can do a backup over a client connection,
> rather than from the command line like pgsql etc?
>
> By that I mean some kind of SELECT commands that can retrieve the
> database's content as SQL commands that can be replayed to a server to
> restore it, rather than something that saves directly to file, or
> passes it through a pipe?

What's wrong with pg_dump?

Andreas
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