pg_dump negation regex

On 5/7/20 9:53 AM, Eudald Valcàrcel Lacasa wrote:

Hello!
I've been looking at the documentation and there seems to be no keyword
for negation purposes.

Am I missing something? Or it's like this?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/app-pgdump.html

-T pattern
--exclude-table=pattern

Do not dump any tables matching pattern. The pattern is interpreted
according to the same rules as for -t. -T can be given more than once to
exclude tables matching any of several patterns.

When both -t and -T are given, the behavior is to dump just the
tables that match at least one -t switch but no -T switches. If -T
appears without -t, then tables matching -T are excluded from what is
otherwise a normal dump.

For what patterns you can use see:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-PATTERNS

I'm trying to use pg_dump to create a database skeleton and I have
tables like program_0, program_1, etc. And I'd like to dump all the
tables but client_1 onwards.

Does anybody happen to know a way to accomplish it?

Thank you!
Eudald

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

I know the -T command, but I'm trying to regex the "pattern" in -T in order
to exclude all tables named program_1 onwards.
I believe commonly you'd use -T "program_!0", but the ! negation keyword is
not defined.

Thanks,
Eudald

El jue., 7 may. 2020 a las 19:36, Adrian Klaver (<adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
escribió:

On May 7, 2020, at 1:03 PM, Eudald Valcàrcel Lacasa <eudald.valcarcel@gmail.com> wrote:

I know the -T command, but I'm trying to regex the "pattern" in -T in order to exclude all tables named program_1 onwards.
I believe commonly you'd use -T "program_!0", but the ! negation keyword is not defined.

Thanks,
Eudald

More like ‘program[^0].*’ of there are no leading zero (e.g.09) or ‘program[1-9][0-9]*'

You're right Rob.

Thanks, it worked!
Eudald

El jue., 7 may. 2020 a las 21:16, Rob Sargent (<robjsargent@gmail.com>)
escribió: