Dear Martin,
In message <201301101314.r0adeixr002...@higson.cam.lispworks.com> you wrote:
>
> > I noticed that running "make_catalog_backup.pl" with a PostgreSQL
> > database runs "pg_dump -c" (i. e. without specifying a database),
> > which results in a full dump of the whole DB server, including far
> > more than the Bacula catalog.
>
> Are you sure that it dumps the whole server? The postgresql.org doc for the
> dbname argument to pg_dump says that it only ever dumps one database:
>
> "Specifies the name of the database to be dumped. If this is not specified,
> the environment variable PGDATABASE is used. If that is not set, the user name
> specified for the connection is used."
>
> The make_catalog_backup.pl script sets PGDATABASE.
Ah, indeed. I missed the second part of the explanation - I was
looking for a command line argument, and saw none.
But you are right, indeed it sets the PGDATABASE environment variable.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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