Re: Database names and pg_dump

You can do a "psql -l". With this you can see all databases you have
After this you can do a loop and a pg_dump for each one.

David Rickard wrote:

> We are planning to migrate from Oracle to PostGreSQL, and we would
> like to replicate our database maintenance procedures/scripts as
> closely as possible;
> Our Oracle backup scripts extract the names of all active SIDs from
> the /etc/oratab file and perform a backup export for each SID;
> Is there an equivalent file or utility that will provide the name of
> each database within a PostGreSQL cluster?
> I know you can extract an entire cluster via pg_dumpall, but we would
> like to stick with the individual db backups--for file-size issues and
> restore efficiency.
>
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