"Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@mailpen.com> writes:
> On 2021-06-10 09:54, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>> Your cmd lacks =
>> =>pg_dumpall -U Admin --exclude-database=MailPen >zzz.sql
> I read that before posting, but missed that. Old command line patterns
> die hard!
> However, the result was the same: 3.5GB before running out of space.
[ experiments... ] Looks like you gotta do it like this:
pg_dumpall '--exclude-database="MailPen"' ...
This surprises me, as I thought it was project policy not to
case-fold command-line arguments (precisely because you end
up needing weird quoting to prevent that).
regards, tom lane
