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From	Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject	Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump
Date	October 23, 2016 20:15:30
Msg-id	VisenaEmail.21.a63bf9f6ad8a6d62.157f28873f6@tc7-visena Whole thread Raw
In response to	Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
Responses	Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump
List	pgsql-general

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På søndag 23. oktober 2016 kl. 17:06:57, skrev Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>:

2016-03-08 21:06 GMT+01:00 Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>:
På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 21:03:01, skrev David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> wrote:
På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 17:38:04, skrev Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>:
On 03/08/2016 08:02 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 16:57:01, skrev Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
> <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>>:
>
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> writes:
> > What I'm looking for is "inverse -b" in an otherwise complete
> dump. Any plans
> > to add that?
>
> [ shrug... ] Nobody ever asked for it before.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
> It surely helps testing production-datasets which contain lots of BLOBs
> where one wants to dump the production-data into a test-env. We have
> >1TB databases containing > 95% blobs so it would help us tremendously
> to have this option.

I have quite a few customers that would benefit from the ability to not
have blobs present in dumps.

Great! So how do we proceed to get "--no-blobs" added to pg_dump?
Maybe CommandPrompt and Visena should co-fund development of such an addition, if it's accepted by -hackers?
We'd be willing to pay for such an addition for the 9.5 branch, as a patch.

Unfortunately this doesn't qualify as a bug fix - it is a new feature and thus is ineligible for inclusion in official 9.5

David J.

Of course. That's why I mentioned that, if possible, an unofficial patch to 9.5 could be developed, funded partly by Visena (my company). Given that someone is willing to do this of course.

That probably should look like the patch attached. It applies cleanly on HEAD, and works AFAICT. If this patch seems interesting enough, I'll add it to the next commit fest (note for myself, update the ref/pg_dump.sgml documentation file).

For Andreas' information, it also applies on 9.5, though I didn't check if it worked afterwards.