Jeff Frost wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Jeff Frost <jeff@frostconsultingllc.com> writes:
>>> Tom one thing I noticed recently is that pg_dumpall --globals doesn't
>>> seem to pick up when you alter the GUCs at the database level and
>>> neither does pg_dump. How should you dump to grab that per-database
>>> stuff?
>>
>> Regular pg_dumpall will catch that.
>>
>> There's been some previous discussion about redrawing the dividing lines
>> so that this doesn't fall between the cracks when you try to use
>> --globals plus per-database pg_dump, but AFAIR nothing's been done about
>> it yet. It's a bit tricky since it's not entirely clear who's
>> responsible for creating the individual databases when you restore in
>> that scenario.
>
> I guess I could pg_dumpall -s | grep "ALTER DATABASE" to grab that stuff.
>
That seems silly. Is this the best way to find this data:
SELECT name, setting FROM pg_settings where source = 'database' ORDER BY
name;
?
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