Re: pg_dump without blobs

From: Francisco Reyes <lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com>
To: S?bastien Boutt? <sebastien(dot)boutte(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump without blobs
Date: 2007-07-16 13:26:00
Message-ID: cone.1184592360.506548.54070.5001@35st.simplicato.com
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Sébastien Boutté writes:

> I try with options : -n public (without -b) but it's always the same,
> the dump is huge.

According to the man page that should have done it:

Note: Non-schema objects such as blobs are not dumped when -n is
specified. You can add blobs back to the dump with the
--blobs switch.

I guess the next question is 'what does postgresql considers a blob'?
bytea fields? How about a large text with megabytes worth of data?

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