In response to Frank Church : > Are there SQL commands that can do a backup over a client connection, > rather than from the command line like pgsql etc? > > By that I mean some kind of SELECT commands that can retrieve the > database's content as SQL commands that can be replayed to a server to > restore it, rather than something that saves directly to file, or > passes it through a pipe? What's wrong with pg_dump? Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general