Re: Dump all in several files

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:01:39PM +0100, Frederic Massot wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >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.
> >
> >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?
> >
>
> This script is called in a crontab the every day at 6 o'clock in the
> morning.

You can obtain the list of databases for scripting with

psql -tlA | cut -d\| -f1

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