Re: Enhancement to pg_dump

Dave,

Ok thanks. Yes, we've got over 1/2 billion rows in one of our tables which
is interesting!

Will post back soon.

Rob

2008/11/25 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>

> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Rob Kirkbride <rob(dot)kirkbride(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm very new to hacking postgresql but am using on a very big site
> > (http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk). One of the issues that we have is
> moving
> > data from a live database to a reports one. I've hacked an extra option
> to
> > pg_dump to delete from tables rather than dropping them.
>
> National Rail use Postgres for their journey planner? Cool :-)
>
> > Once I'm happy with it (I'm a bit rusty at C!), do I post the patch here?
>
> Yes (and please add details to
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFestOpen so it doesn't get
> lost), but please note that we're in the middle of the final phase of
> the development cycle at the moment, so new patches are unlikely to be
> looked at for at least a couple of months.
>
>
> --
> Dave Page
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>