Re: pg_dump ignore tablespaces

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Gavin M(dot) Roy" <gavinmroy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump ignore tablespaces
Date: 2007-07-15 02:56:33
Message-ID: 806.1184468193@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Gavin M. Roy" <gavinmroy(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Recently I ran into an issue where restoring from pg_dump from one machine
> to another with non-matching tablespaces. The primary issue is that index
> creation will fail if the tablespace does not exist from the dump. I was
> thinking to best solution for this would be a pg_dump option such as
> --ignore-tablespaces which would not dump any tablespace related data.

We have --no-owner, so --no-tablespace doesn't seem out of line.

It's a bit late for 8.3 but no objection to adding such a feature
for 8.4.

regards, tom lane

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