Thread: Database backup
Hai, How to take Database backup from an application developed in Visual Basic thats running at Windows Client and Database resting at Linux Server. THanx Sreejith
* sreejith s <getsreejith@gmail.com> [2004-10-17 08:49:44 +0530]: > How to take Database backup from an application developed in Visual > Basic thats running at Windows Client and Database resting at Linux > Server. THanx pg_dump -U your_username your_database > your_database.sql -- Steven Klassen - Lead Programmer Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication & Support Services, (503) 667-4564
sreejith s wrote: >How to take Database backup from an application developed in Visual >Basic thats running at Windows Client and Database resting at Linux >Server. THanx > > You wrote a similar question some days ago and mentioned that pg_dump wouldn't work on Windows, so I figure you don't want to let the Linux host computer make the backups but your Windows client. You could go 2 ways. 1) Install pg_dump on your Windows client. Either as PostgreSQL on a CygWin environment or a Windows-native PostgreSQL 7.5 or 8.0 installation. Since you only need pg_dump you wouldn't configure a running PostgreSQL so this should be pretty easy. E.g. the Linux host's IP is 192.168.0.123. Then you can run on Windows : pg_dump --host=192.168.0.123 -U your_username your_database > your_database.sql 2) Let the Linux server do the backup and transfer the resulting backup file as soon as possible to your Windows client. a) The server could push it through SAMBA, SCP or FTP. b) The client could collect all backup files when it gets booted, if the server puts the files in a SAMBA share that the client can mount as network drive or access via FTP. I'd propose you take the alternative 2) b).
I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how to get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in postgresql case a sequence number) any help will be appreciated thanks Lori
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:16, lorid wrote:
> I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how to
> get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in
> postgresql case a sequence number)
If you know the name of the sequence the number came from you can use
currval():
insert into table1 (info) values ('abc');
select currval('table1seq');
Assuming table1seq is the name of the sequence here.
In 8.0 there's a function to do this (I'm not sure of the name, but a
quick search of the 8.0 docs should turn it up.)
On Feb 3, 2005, at 5:16 PM, lorid wrote: > I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how to > get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in > postgresql case a sequence number) > See here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions- sequence.html#FUNCTIONS-SEQUENCE-TABLE Sean
Perhaps you meant: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-SCHEMA-TABLE in particular |pg_get_serial_sequence|(table_name, column_name) Sean Davis wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2005, at 5:16 PM, lorid wrote: > >> I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how >> to get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in >> postgresql case a sequence number) >> > > See here: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions- > sequence.html#FUNCTIONS-SEQUENCE-TABLE > > Sean > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org) -- Edmund Bacon <ebacon@onesystem.com>