Re: [GENERAL] Can I backup/restore a database in a sql script?

Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to write a sql script in which I backup a database and restore
> a new (altered) version of that database. Is that possible? If so ,
> can anyone give me an example of how to do that?
>
> I can run it from any command prompt (psql -U postgres template1 <
> my_db.backup)    but I would like it to run from psql (which should
> give me 1 script for all platforms I must do this: Windows, FreeBSD
> and Debian)

You can restore using just psql (because pg_dump can produce an sql file
to be processed). I don't know of any way to backup a database that
doesn't use pg_dump.

--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd