Re: restore OIDs

Dino Mifsud wrote:
> I have a table where I am storing images in a column of type OID which is
> pointing to the pg_largeobject table.
>
> Now when I try do a pg_dump and restore just a schema from one database to another
> with the below commands, the OID column in the table is correctly restored with the
> original number but the pg_largeobject table in the restored database does not contain
> these OID entries that store the actual image bytes and therefore the images are not restored.
>
> pg_dump --data-only --host localhost --port 5432 --username "postgres" --schema=myschema \
> --format custom --verbose --file "/Users/myuser/Work/databases_backup/original.backup" "db1"
>
> pg_restore --host localhostd --port 5432 --username "postgres" --schema=myshcema \
> --disable-triggers -d db2 "/Users/myuser/Work/databases_backup/original.backup"
>
>
> How can I dump and restore correctly just a particular schema?

If you use the --schema option, but want to dump large objects too, add the --blobs option.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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