Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump

2016-03-08 21:06 GMT+01:00 Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>:

> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 21:03:01, skrev David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>:
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 17:38:04, skrev Joshua D. Drake <
>> jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Great! So how do we proceed to get "--no-blobs" added to pg_dump?
>> Maybe CommandPrompt and Visena should co-fund development of such an
>> addition, if it's accepted by -hackers?
>> We'd be willing to pay for such an addition for the 9.5 branch, as a
>> patch.
>>
>
> ​Unfortunately this doesn't qualify as a bug fix - it is a new feature and
> thus is ineligible for inclusion in official 9.5
>
> David J.
>
>
> Of course. That's why I mentioned that, if possible, an unofficial patch
> to 9.5 could be developed, funded partly by Visena (my company). Given that
> someone is willing to do this of course.
>
>

That probably should look like the patch attached. It applies cleanly on
HEAD, and works AFAICT. If this patch seems interesting enough, I'll add it
to the next commit fest (note for myself, update the ref/pg_dump.sgml
documentation file).

For Andreas' information, it also applies on 9.5, though I didn't check if
it worked afterwards.

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