Re: sql dump

Thanks for all the suggestions.  COPY may work for my purposes.  The
SSH tunnel option for using pg_dump is very interesting.

Thanks!
Scott




On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:18 AM, David Fetter wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:58:59AM -0700, Scott Frankel wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it possible to perform an SQL Dump without using pg_dump?
>
> No, but there may be more options for using pg_dump than you have
> looked at.  One example would be to use pg_dump on one with an SSH
> tunnel to the other one's local PostgreSQL port (5432 by default, but
> check which yours is).  For example:
>
>    ssh -fNR 5432:localhost:5555 postgres@your.host.dom
>
> would let you connect to localhost:5555 with pg_dump and any other
> PostgreSQL tools.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>> I have a special case situation wherein my application has access to
>> a remotely-hosted PG (8.3) database, but does not have access to its
>> admin tools.  (There's a longer backstory here that I'm happy to
>> explain if necessary.)  I'm looking for an efficient way to dump all
>> the data in the DB without having to SELECT * on each table.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>> Scott
>>
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