| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | pg_restore --no-post-data and --post-data-only |
| Date: | 2011-08-23 20:30:50 |
| Message-ID: | 4E540DFA.6020205@dunslane.net |
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Attached is an undocumented patch that allows pg_restore to omit
post-data items or omit all but post-data items. This has been discussed
before, and Simon sent in a patch back on 2008, which has bitrotted
some. I'm not sure why it was dropped at the time, but I think it's time
to do this. This patch relies on some infrastructure that was added
since Simon's patch, so it works a bit differently (and more simply).
So with this patch, the following three sequences should be equivalent:
pg_restore --no-post-data
pg_restore --post-data-only
pg_restore -s --no-post-data
pg_restore -a
pg_restore --post-data-only
pg_restore
This is useful and worth doing on its own, and will also add to the
usefulness of the pg_dump --exclude-table-data patch in my previous email.
As with that patch, a version that applies to version 9.0 and 8.4
sources is also attached, for the very eager.
cheers
andrew
| Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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| exclude-post-data-steps.patch.90 | text/plain | 4.0 KB |
| exclude-post-data-steps.patch | text/x-patch | 4.1 KB |
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