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Sunday, July 27. 2008PostgreSQL 8.3 Pg_dump Pg_Restore Cheatsheet OverviewPrinter FriendlyBackup and Restore is probably the most important thing to know how to do when you have a database with data you care about. The utilities in PostgreSQL that accomplish these tasks are pg_restore, pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and for restore of plain text dumps - psql. A lot of the switches used by pg_dump, pg_restore, pg_dumpall are common to all three and on rare cases, the switches used by each overlap but mean different things. pg_dump and pg_restore are complementary. You use pg_dump to do hot backups of a database and pg_restore to restore it either to another database or to recover portions of a database. Rather than trying to keep track of which switch works with which, we decided to combine all into a single cheat sheet with a column denoting which utility the switch is supported in. Pretty much all the text is compiled from the --help switch of each. Below is a Thumbnail view of the PostgreSQL 8.3 Dump Restore cheat sheet that covers PostgreSQL 8.3 pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore utilities. 
PDF Portrait version 8.5 x 11" of this cheatsheet is available at PostgreSQL 8.3 Dump Restore 8.5 x 11 and also available in PDF A4 format and HTML. |
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