Re: pg_dumpall --exclude

Richard Ray wrote:
> I've inherited an application that creates a temp schema and stores
> a table for each user there.
> The data is temporary and does not need to be backed up.
> I run pg_dumpall each night.
> I can't just delete the tables because users may be working during the
> backup.
> Any suggestion on how to exclude the temp schema?

You don't say what version of Postgres you are using but 8.2 added this
feature:

* Allow complex selection of objects to be included or excluded by
pg_dump (Greg Sabino Mullane) pg_dump now supports multiple -n
(schema) and -t (table) options, and adds -N and -T options to
exclude objects. Also, the arguments of these switches can now be
wild-card expressions rather than single object names, for example
-t 'foo*', and a schema can be part of a -t or -T switch, for
example -t schema1.table1.

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