Re: suggestion

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:58:38AM +0800, Jan Cruz wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> wrote:
> --schema-only flag is the equivalence of -s
>
> I also want an option that would exclude "CREATE INDEX " whenever
> a schema is being dump

At least on my small test database, all the CREATE INDEX commands are
one-liners. This means it would be trivial to exclude them with
grep -v 'CREATE INDEX, or grab just them with grep 'CREATE INDEX'. I'd
just stick the greps in between cat and psql -f -.

> The reason for this is that whenever I tried to migrate database
> whenever I restore a schema with indexes and then
> restore the data separately it took more or less 24 hours instead of
> the usual 1 hour more or less.
>
> For example let say I want to use this particular schema from the test
> server
> since the stored functions and/or views are already updated
>
> and then my data would come from the production server which has a different
>
> version of postgres and the schema (particularly the stored functions/views)
> that
> would is already deprecated from the test server.
>
> So I just need to dump the schema from the test server without the indexes
> and restore the new schema to a new database/server and restore the dump
> from the production server to the new database/server.
>
> I hope I explain my side properly

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