am Thu, dem 30.08.2007, um 14:59:06 +0800 mailte Ow Mun Heng folgendes: > Is there a way to do a dump of a database using a select statement? A complete database or just a simple table? > > eg: \copy trd to 'file' select * from table limit 10 Since 8.2 you can use COPY (select * from table) TO 'file'. Other solution, use a regular UNIX-Shell and psql, a la echo "select * from table limit 10;" | psql <database> > file Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend