Should this be an FAQ?
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Bruno LEVEQUE wrote:
> You can do a "psql -l". With this you can see all databases you have
> After this you can do a loop and a pg_dump for each one.
>
> 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.
> >
> >
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> Bruno LEVEQUE
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> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your
> joining column's datatypes do not match
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