Re: Recovering data via raw table and field separators

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: John Wells <jb(at)sourceillustrated(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recovering data via raw table and field separators
Date: 2007-12-05 16:40:41
Message-ID: 20071205164041.GG16991@alvh.no-ip.org
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John Wells wrote:

> I have pg_filedump installed, but can't figure out how to dump the
> rows themselves. I get the equivalent of the output at the end of this
> post. Looking over the --help, there's nothing obvious that has gotten
> me further.

-i is the option you need; but you have to keep in mind that it won't
show you the textual representation of data. It will only get you
internal representation (binary).

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J
"MySQL is a toy compared to PostgreSQL." (Randal L. Schwartz)
(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00517.php)

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