Thanks for the suggestion Adrian, Unfortunately, my process is executing from psql, so to start pg_dump from within psql is a bit challenging. We have 1 instance where we start an OS process from a function, but it's new territory for us. My function is dumping everything but the ACL grant list. I currently have a function that will build and execute the grants from the acl list, so it's just a simple exercise to get it to dump the statements. I was just hoping that there were standard functions for doing this. Thanks doug -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general