Re: pg_dump : option --exclude-schema not recognized - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: pg_dump : option --exclude-schema not recognized
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Msg-id 66F8578D-8285-4E9C-AA13-AD5617C0CB1D@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: pg_dump : option --exclude-schema not recognized  (Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr>)
List pgsql-general
On Nov 17, 2006, at 5:31 AM, Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
> Richard Huxton a écrit :
>> Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
>>> Richard Huxton a écrit :
>>>> Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
>>>>> Hi all !
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to exclude just one schema of my dump.
>>>>>
>>>>> pg_dump -N myschema
>>>>> or
>>>>> pg_dump --exclude-schema=myschema
>>>>> both tell me that the option is unknown.
>>>>
>>>> It's not in 8.1 - you must have been reading the 8.2 docs
>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/app-pgdump.html
>>> Most probably !
>>> Thanks for pointing this out. I'll have to be patient then !
>> You can always exclude individual items on restore using
>> pg_restore's --list / --use-list options though.
>
> Yes, but I wanted to limit the size of the dump : I have a schema
> containing a lot of spatial entities, very big and useless in a
> backup.
> I will keep dumping the schemas one by one for now, it's fine.

Just remember that dumping things that way means you won't have a
consistent backup of your data.
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Jim Nasby                               jim.nasby@enterprisedb.com
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