Re: HELP - need way to restore only blobs

Thanks to all who responded.
Found the pg_dumplo tool in contrib which did exactly what I needed.

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 05:54, Jeff Boes wrote:
> At some point in time, wlittle(at)securitylending(dot)com (Warren Little) wrote:
>
> >I migrated my database from 7.3 to 7.4 this weekend using the pg_dumpall
> >tool which I now realize does not capture blobs.
> >
> >I now need to move only the blob data to the 7.4 database.
> >The problem with redoing the dump with pg_dump -b is the database is now
> >in production and writing over the top of changes to the database is not
> >exceptable. The blob data is very static so if there was some way to
> >copy the physical files from disk and modify some records in the system
> >tables to properly locate the blob records that would be best. Another
> >option I was looking at was to restore the archived database with the
> >blobs intact and then restore the production version over the top
> >without destroying the blob data.
>
> In a similar situation, we wrote a script that constructs "\lo_export" commands
> to dump each large object to a file. The file name for each contains the
> information needed to reconstruct the object at the other end. For instance, if
> you have a table like this:
>
> CREATE TABLE foobar (primary_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, large_obj OID, ...)
>
> you'd want a series of commands that look like this:
>
> \lo_export <large_obj> <primary_id>.dmp
>
> Then, given a directory full of such files, you construct another series of
> commands that look like this:
>
> \lo_import <primary_id>.dmp
>
> UPDATE foobar SET large_obj = <new_value> WHERE primary_id = <primary_id>;
>
> The trick is capturing the output of the \lo_import command and parsing it to
> get the large object OID after it is created.
>
> I don't know if I have permission to post or email the script, but if you
> contact me offline I should know by then.
>
> jboes at n/e/x/c/e/r/p/t/d/o/t/c/o/m
>
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