Re: pg_dump feature request: Exclude tables?

Ron St-Pierre wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >Glen Parker wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Since pg_dump will be allowing multiple -t <table> parameters for 8.0, here
> >>is a related feature request.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Nope, didn't make it into 8.0.
> >
> >
> >
> >>A similar option (allowing multiples also) to EXCLUDE tables, so we can do a
> >>dump of the entire database minus a few tables.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yes, we have talked about that.
> >
> >
> >
> This would be a big plus for one of our projects too. Is it on some TODO
> list for a future release?

No, we have:

* Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches

This should be done by allowing a '-t schema.table' syntax.

but that doesn't have the exclude option. We had a patch that
implemented an exclude but got confused over how it would interact with
the schema switch and stuff. However, with the new '-t schema.table'
syntax we might be able to get it working.

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