Re: enhancement request for pg_restore

Hi Lance,

On 2015-08-13 15:10:21 +0000, Campbell, Lance wrote:
> PostgreSQL 9.4.x
>
> I love using the PostgreSQL database. It is wonderful.

Good to hear!

> Please consider adding to pg_restore the command line option to exclude one or more tables similar to the pg_dump option.
>
> Example:
>
> --exclude-table=table
>
> Why? I like to restore all tables within a particular namespace from
> our production database to our test database. But there are many
> times when you have some tables that hold data you don't necessarily
> need information from. In those cases I would exclude those tables.
> I would then do a second pg_restore so I could get the schema for
> those particular tables.

You can kind of do this today using pg_restore's --list parameter to
dump the list of objects in the archive, then remove the objects you
don't need/want, and then use --use-list to restore only the remaining
objects.

Greetings,

Andres Freund