On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 02:59:05PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > And a much more reasonable assumption would have been 9.5 - let the user > complain if/when the advice doesn't work because they are on an unstated > older release that doesn't support the feature in question. > > I guess the O/S would be needed for syntax purposes but the typical > responder would simply provide an answer if whatever O/S shell they are > familiar with and deal with the issue of making it work elsewhere if needed. > > It is, however, quite needed to report the version (and usually O/S) when > posting to the -bugs list. This here is the -general list and the need to > do so is generally not all that frequent though is appreciated as it makes > giving targeted advice a bit easier. Thanks but no worry. I am myself actually in favor of providing sufficient information. So I did and took the possibly (!) ever so slight chiding undertones (?) as a lesson in humility :-)) Eventually, I went with TARGET_DB=`pg_restore -C -s ${BACKUP}.dir | head -n 40 | grep -i "create database gnumed_v" | cut -f 3 -d " "` which is intended to be used under bash: Installiert: 4.3-14+b1 Installationskandidat: 4.3-14+b1 Versionstabelle: *** 4.3-14+b1 0 990 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch/main i386 Packages 500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4.3-11+b1 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages Note that I changed the "head -1" to "head -n 40" coreutils: Installiert: 8.25-2 Installationskandidat: 8.25-2 Versionstabelle: *** 8.25-2 0 990 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch/main i386 Packages 500 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 8.23-4 0 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages Thanks, Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general