On 2009-01-30, Steve Crawford <scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
>
>> You can however pull it from a -Fc backup with pg_restore. Just FYI.
>>
>> Joshua D. Drake
>>   
>
> Or strip it from a pg_dump/pg_dumpall with sed. Or write your own 
> function-dumper based on ideas gleaned from various notes/comments on 
> the web (my approach).
>
> I had not thought of using the -Fc approach but it appears that that 
> would require dumping the whole database then using pg_restore to pull 
> the function definition from the dump.

not the whole database, you can use --schema-only 
this can save significant pipe bandwidth.

Is it possible to get pg_restore to list just the named function?

> One other thing that would be nice to have for function-dumping whether 
> in pg_dump or using the -Fc approach would be the ability to dump all 
> functions of a given name instead of having to go one-by-one. It's 
> pretty unusual for identically-named functions to have unrelated purposes.

but sometimes you only want one of them.

in summary it'd be nice to have an equivalent of pg_restore's
"--function=NAME(args)" option on pg_dump and to have the "(args)" part
optional.


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