On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:43:01 +0100, Frederic Massot
<frederic@juliana-multimedia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On the PostgreSQL 6.5 server I use this shell script (see below) for the
> backup all of the database in several files, one file per database.
>
> With version 7.3 of PostgreSQL (and the following) the data are not
> recorded any more in a repertory with the name of the database, but with
> the OID of the basebase.
>
> Do you know how I can adapt this script?
>
> If a developer of pg_dumpall reads this post, is it possible to add to
> the command pg_dumpall an option to record one database per file?
>
> Regards.
>
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> for p in $(find /var/lib/postgres/data/base/ -type d -print -mindepth 1
> -maxdepth 1 )
> do
> base=`basename "$p"`
> pg_dump -d -f /var/backup/postgresql/dump_$base $base
> done
Maybe i'm just not following you, but why can't you just do:
pg_dump $DBNAME >$DB_NAME
where $DB_NAME is the name of each database on the box?
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