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

From Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump
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Msg-id VisenaEmail.5a.d831768a6ded6753.153571b22ee@tc7-visena
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In response to Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
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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.
 
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Andreas Joseph Krogh
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