Re: Can one Dump schema without index/constraints?

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Tory M Blue <tmblue(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm working with slon and the index portion for at least 3 of my tables
> take
> > hours to complete and thus with this instance of slony being a wide area
> > replica, sessions time out and slon fails to complete.
> >
> > So I'm looking at dumping the schema without index information, install
> that
> > on the slon slave and replicate that way, once replication of the data is
> > done, I can run commands to create the indexes.
> >
> > But I'm not 100% if there are tools or private scripts written to pull
> > indexes from a schema only dump and then allow for an easy recreation of
> the
> > indexes at the end of the slon replication process (once all sets are
> > replicated)?
> "pg_dump --section" can be used for that. pre-data includes table
> definitions and everything other than post-data dumps. post-data has
> contraint, trigger, index and rules.
> --
> Michael
>

Thanks Michael, that looks like the ticket!! Will give this a whirl

Thanks again
Tory