Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump

From: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump
Date: 2016-03-08 16:45:14
Message-ID: VisenaEmail.5a.d831768a6ded6753.153571b22ee@tc7-visena
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På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 17:38:04, skrev Joshua D. Drake <
jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com <mailto: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.
 
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