Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>
wrote:

> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 16:57:01, skrev Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>
> Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com> writes:
> > What I'm looking for is "inverse -b" in an otherwise complete dump. Any
> plans
> > to add that?
>
> [ shrug... ] Nobody ever asked for it before.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
> It surely helps testing production-datasets which contain lots of BLOBs
> where one wants to dump the production-data into a test-env. We have >1TB
> databases containing > 95% blobs so it would help us tremendously to have
> this option.
>
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Probably you need to redesign the schema.

Move the blobs to a new/separate child table. Then you can exclude them.

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