Re: excluding a table from pg_dump

Josh(dot)Zeckser(at)jeppesen(dot)com writes:
> pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote on 10/25/2005 02:31:51 AM:
>> It's possible with pg_restore to exclude that table on /restore/, but
>> that's not what you asked for..
>>
>> On 25.10.2005 11:08, Gourish Singbal wrote:
>> > pg_dump does not allow you to accomplish this task for sure.
>> >
>> > On 10/20/05, Colton A Smith <smith(at)cs(dot)utk(dot)edu> wrote:
>> >> I don't think this is possible, but I want to make sure. Let's say I
>> >> have a database that I want to dump in its entirety, all except for one
>> >> particular table. Is there an option flag on pg_dump that accomplishes
>> >> this?

> Here is an option: Dump into a test database, drop the table in the
> test db & dump to file: pg_dump originaldb | psql testdb <
> droptable.sql; pg_dump testdb > dumpfile

A usual reason why I would want to dump everything except for a few
tables is that those few tables are particularly enormous and
particularly useless (at least, for the purposes of my dump).

In that case, the LAST thing I want to do is to make extra copies of
the *useless* tables.

By the way, it is quite likely that the above approach would be more
quickly accomplished via using originaldb as a template for testdb.

Thus...

$ createdb --template=originaldb testdb
$ for tables in t1 t2 t3 t4 t4; do
> psql -d testdb -c "drop table public.t1;"
done
$ pg_dump testdb > dumpfile
$ dropdb testdb
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