pg_dump feature request: Exclude tables?

Started by Glen Parkerover 21 years ago5 messagesgeneral
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#1Glen Parker
glenebob@nwlink.com

Since pg_dump will be allowing multiple -t <table> parameters for 8.0, here
is a related feature request.

A similar option (allowing multiples also) to EXCLUDE tables, so we can do a
dump of the entire database minus a few tables.

Glen Parker
glenebob@nwlink.com

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Glen Parker (#1)
Re: pg_dump feature request: Exclude tables?

Glen Parker wrote:

Since pg_dump will be allowing multiple -t <table> parameters for 8.0, here
is a related feature request.

Nope, didn't make it into 8.0.

A similar option (allowing multiples also) to EXCLUDE tables, so we can do a
dump of the entire database minus a few tables.

Yes, we have talked about that.

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#3Ron St-Pierre
rstpierre@syscor.com
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#2)
Re: pg_dump feature request: Exclude tables?

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Glen Parker wrote:

Since pg_dump will be allowing multiple -t <table> parameters for 8.0, here
is a related feature request.

Nope, didn't make it into 8.0.

A similar option (allowing multiples also) to EXCLUDE tables, so we can do a
dump of the entire database minus a few tables.

Yes, we have talked about that.

This would be a big plus for one of our projects too. Is it on some TODO
list for a future release?

Ron

#4Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Ron St-Pierre (#3)
Re: pg_dump feature request: Exclude tables?

Ron St-Pierre wrote:

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Glen Parker wrote:

Since pg_dump will be allowing multiple -t <table> parameters for 8.0, here
is a related feature request.

Nope, didn't make it into 8.0.

A similar option (allowing multiples also) to EXCLUDE tables, so we can do a
dump of the entire database minus a few tables.

Yes, we have talked about that.

This would be a big plus for one of our projects too. Is it on some TODO
list for a future release?

No, we have:

* Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches

This should be done by allowing a '-t schema.table' syntax.

but that doesn't have the exclude option. We had a patch that
implemented an exclude but got confused over how it would interact with
the schema switch and stuff. However, with the new '-t schema.table'
syntax we might be able to get it working.

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#5Paul Tillotson
pntil@shentel.net
In reply to: Glen Parker (#1)
Re: pg_dump feature request: Exclude tables?

I second this. I would prefer an option to dump only the schema of
certain tables rather than excluding them altogether.

Paul

Glen Parker wrote:

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Since pg_dump will be allowing multiple -t <table> parameters for 8.0, here
is a related feature request.

A similar option (allowing multiples also) to EXCLUDE tables, so we can do a
dump of the entire database minus a few tables.

Glen Parker
glenebob@nwlink.com

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