Yes, but I'm doing this from a Delphi program in Windows and that's why I'm looking for a solution that's SQL-based. It would be nice if one of the system catalog views handled it. > hmmm .. "additional coding" seems a bit too much for a simple thing like > this: > pg_dump -s | perl -ne 'print if /^CREATE FUNCTION test_it/../^\s+LANGUAGE/' > > of course it would be cool to have switch to do it, but hey - it hardly > even qualifies as one-liner. it's more "an expression" than code. On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:43 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:28:37AM -0700, Postgres User wrote: > > Unfortunately I didn't see a way to tell pg_dump to dump only objects > > of a specific type, like functions or sequences. It requires > > additional coding to parse the output and that's less than ideal... > > hmmm .. "additional coding" seems a bit too much for a simple thing like > this: > pg_dump -s | perl -ne 'print if /^CREATE FUNCTION test_it/../^\s+LANGUAGE/' > > of course it would be cool to have switch to do it, but hey - it hardly > even qualifies as one-liner. it's more "an expression" than code. > > > -- > quicksil1er: "postgres is excellent, but like any DB it requires a > highly paid DBA. here's my CV!" :) > http://www.depesz.com/ - blog dla ciebie (i moje CV) >