Thread: pg_dump question

pg_dump question

From
Judith
Date:
  Hello every body!!  I have a quesyion respect pg_dump...........
   I need to backup the db structure, I suposse that I do with pg_dump 
-s, but I want to restore but just with some tables with the db 
catalogues, can I do this?, I mean, restore al the db structure without 
data and after restore the data of the catalogues tables??



Re: pg_dump question

From
Erik Jones
Date:
On Oct 5, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Judith wrote:

>  Hello every body!!  I have a quesyion respect pg_dump...........
>
>    I need to backup the db structure, I suposse that I do with
> pg_dump -s, but I want to restore but just with some tables with
> the db catalogues, can I do this?, I mean, restore al the db
> structure without data and after restore the data of the catalogues
> tables??

Don't worry about the catalog tables.  If all you want is the schema
dumped and restored then, yes, use the -s flag.  The data in the
catalog tables is built as the schema is rebuilt during the restore,
i.e postgres takes care of those for you.

Erik Jones

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