On 06/10/2008 16:12, Alain Roger wrote: > AFAIK, pg_dump -v -o -U username -ci -Ft -f tarname.tar dbname > backup the DB but without inserting code to create the BD itself... just What's -ci? Looking at the docs, there's are -c and -i options, but I don't see -ci. > how can i do that automatically ? > i mean when i dump my db, how can i dump ALSO the script to create the > BD and its property ? From the docs: <quote> -C --create Begin the output with a command to create the database itself and reconnect to the created database. (With a script of this form, it doesn't matter which database you connect to before running the script.) This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call pg_restore. </quote> So it seems that you can't do it when using a non-text format - you'll have to do a plain-text dump, and maybe pipe it to tar if you want that. Ray. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland rod@xxxxxx Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals ------------------------------------------------------------------