On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Reece Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 06:12 -0700, Postgres User wrote: > > Has anyone written a function that scripts out all the functions in a > > database as full SQL statements (Create Function.....) > > You could pg_dump the schema in the "custom" format (-Fc), then call > pg_restore with -l to get the TOC, grep the TOC for functions, and feed > that back into pg_restore with -L. It sounds like a lot, but it's pretty > easy in practice, like so: > > $ sudo -u postgres pg_dump -Fc -s mydb >mydb.pgdfc > $ pg_restore -l mydb.pgdfc >mydb.toc > $ grep -E '^[0-9]+; [0-9]+ [0-9]+ FUNCTION' mydb.toc >mydb-fx.toc > $ pg_restore -L mydb-fx.toc mydb.pgdfc > > The output of pg_restore is sql. > > This technique is extremely useful for other kinds of schema elements as > well. > > It's a bit too much for the task at hand. Recently I was also faced with a situation where I wanted to dump a few functions (only), but pg_dump does not have any option to do so!! Can we have an option to dump function? Best regards, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
