Re: Database names and pg_dump

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 16:38, David Rickard wrote:
> We are planning to migrate from Oracle to PostGreSQL, and we would
> like to replicate our database maintenance procedures/scripts as
> closely as possible;
> Our Oracle backup scripts extract the names of all active SIDs from
> the /etc/oratab file and perform a backup export for each SID;
> Is there an equivalent file or utility that will provide the name of
> each database within a PostGreSQL cluster?
> I know you can extract an entire cluster via pg_dumpall, but we would
> like to stick with the individual db backups--for file-size issues and
> restore efficiency.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2003-08/msg00058.php

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