Thread: Possible to dump/load a database from within psql?

On 25/01/2016 10:16, Brian Cardarella wrote:
> Is it possible, and if so how, to dump and then load a database to/from
> a file from within a psql connection?

You can use the COPY command to do a table at a time, but you'll get
just the data - you won't get permissions etc.

Ray.

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On 01/25/2016 02:16 AM, Brian Cardarella wrote:
> Is it possible, and if so how, to dump and then load a database to/from
> a file from within a psql connection?

pg_dump -h $host -U $user $database|psql -U $user -h $host $database

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/app-pgdump.html

Sincerely,

JD


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