On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Vibhor Kumar <vibhor.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You can use STDOUT to pipe output to a shell command and STDIN to read input from shell command. > Something like given below: > psql -c "COPY mytable to STDOUT"|gzip >/home/tgl/mytable.dump.gz > > cat filename|psql -c "COPY mytable from STDIN;" > > OR psql -c "COPY mytable from STDIN;" < filename nice one, that works great! (zcat instead of cat, though) -- "Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general