Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-general

Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> writes:
> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 16:54:19, skrev Adrian Klaver <
> adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>:
>  Off hand I would say you are running pg_dump as a user that is not a
>  superuser:

> Yes, since when should I not be able to dump a DB (owned by a non-superuser)
> as that user?

The problem is that -t '*' is being interpreted as matching system
catalogs.  You might be able to get somewhere with

pg_dump -t '*' -N pg_catalog ...

Probably we should fix pg_dump so it doesn't try to dump system catalogs
as tables, even if the switches seem to ask it to.

            regards, tom lane