Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
Frank Church <voi...@googlemail.com> writes:
Are there SQL commands that can do a backup over a client connection,
rather than from the command line like pgsql etc?

That's pg_dump ?

Dimitri has correctly pointed out the flaw behind the basic assumption being made by asking this question. You do not have to use pg_dump from the server's command line in order to dump a database. You can install the same PostgreSQL version on whatever system you want to do the dump from instead, have it connect to the server as a client, and then dump your database on that remote system. pg_dump is already a client application that only requires a network connection to the server and sends it a series of SQL commands.

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