On Wednesday 08 April 2009 6:51:44 am Radcon Entec wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> On my computer, I have a copy of a customer's database for which a full
> backup file would be about 300 megabytes long. There are several history
> tables that are not needed for day-to-day operation of our system. I came
> up with a DOS batch file that consists of a sequence of pg_dump commands.
> The first dumps the database's schema, and all the rest dump the required
> tables into individual files. A companion batch file issues psql
> repeatedly to recreate the database and the tables.
>
> On my computer, the batch files work fine. I run them and they happily
> call pg_dump or psql as many times as they need to, and I don't need to do
> anything.
>
> I just uploaded the batch files to our customer's machine, and a couple of
> questions occured to me. First, pg_dump asks me for a password every time
> it is invoked. That doesn't happen on my computer. What is likely to be
> set up differently on my computer so that I don't need a password?
See pgpass
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html
>
> Second, I see no way to select a server in pg_dump or psql. I am connected
> to a computer that was set up for my use specifically for testing. In
> PGAdmin on that machine, I have a server talking to localhost and a server
> talking to the machine that hosts the production database. I would like to
> run my batch file on the testing machine, but how do I tell pg_dump to use
> the server that talks to the production machine?
Use the -p switch to point pg_dump at the appropriate server.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/app-pgdump.html
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> RobR
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