On 31 out, 12:01, craigwh...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Craig White) wrote: > I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table > data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to > query a database and get a text file with just the table names and > cannot figure out a way to do that. > > my script looks like this... > (all I want is to get a list of the tables into a text file pg_tables) > > #/bin/sh > # > DB_NAME=whatever > # > for i in `cat pg_tables` > do > pg_dump --username=postgres \ > --schema=db > --table=$i \ > --schema-only \ > $DB_NAME > schemas/$i.sql > pg_dump --username=postgres \ > --schema=db \ > --table=$i \ > --data-only \ > $DB_NAME > data/$i.sql > vacuumdb --username=postgres \ > --dbname=$DB_NAME \ > --table=db.$i \ > --verbose \ > --full > done > > Is there a way to do that? > > Craig > > PS there's a lack of cohesion between various commands such as vacuumdb > and pg_dump for things like '--schema' > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match First you can create a file with the SQL statement: select tablename from pg_tables where schemaname not in ('information_schema','pg_catalog' ) order by tablename; After, run it by psql: psql -U [postgres_user] -d [database_name] -f [file_created_with_SQL] > [output_file] This will dump all non-database schema tables into the output file, so you can open it and read table names. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/