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

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> wrote:
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> I don't see what you mean. It forces dump of Blobs if we didn't use -B and
> if we include everything in the dump, which seems good to me. What did you
> try that didn't work as expected?
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> I guess what he means is that if -B is given, the following code sets
> dopt.outputBlobs = false
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> +            case 'B':            /* Don't dump blobs */
> +                dopt.outputBlobs = false;
> +                break;
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> Then this IF sets it back to TRUE:
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> +    if (dopt.include_everything && !dopt.schemaOnly && !dopt.outputBlobs)
>          dopt.outputBlobs = true;
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>
> ...making it impossible to turn off dumping of blobs.
>

Yes, thats the reason v4 patch  was not as expected.

Regards,
Amul Sul