Re: pg_dump and server responsiveness

From: "Bryan Murphy" <bryan(dot)murphy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump and server responsiveness
Date: 2007-12-06 16:11:51
Message-ID: bd8531800712060811x8ca787am56835a59fd190035@mail.gmail.com
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On Dec 6, 2007 10:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Why dump such a table at all? It evidently doesn't contain any
> data you need to preserve ...
>
> I forget which version you are running, but 8.2 pg_dump has an
> --exclude-table switch which'd work peachy for this.

I did not know about that option but it sounds like it will get the
job done. This is our last database running 8.1.9, so even if it
doesn't support that, I plan on migrating it to 8.2 soon anyway.

Thanks,
Bryan

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