Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump
Date: 2016-03-08 16:38:04
Message-ID: 56DEFFEC.9040205@commandprompt.com
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On 03/08/2016 08:02 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 16:57:01, skrev Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
> <mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>>:
>
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)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.

JD

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