On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Adrian Klaver
<adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 4:19:56 pm Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 00:15, Greg Corradini wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Is it possible yet in 8.4 to pg_dump specific functions without having
> > to do the whole pg_restore thing?
>
> If I understand correctly what you're trying to do, a handy alternative
> is to use pgAdmin, right click on the function in the tree view, and
> select Scripts -> Create.
>
> Ray.
In addition, from inside psql do \ef function_name. This opens the function in
an editor from which you can save it elsewhere.
If you are talking a lot of functions then you can use the -l and -L options to
pg_restore to create a TOC list that can be edited to contain only the functions
you want. These than can either be restored to a database or file.
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com
Thx for the replies Adrian and Jerry,
Those are both options. Jerry, your suggestion is the work around I've already used. Adrian, I did not know you could do that. Still...I was looking for something that worked inline with pg_dump...and it looks like pg_restore is still the major game in town.
It would be nice if pg_dump got some option flags to do this sort of thing (though I'm naive on why this doesn't exist in the first place)
