Greetings!
On my computer, I have a copy of a customer's database for which a full backup
file would be about 300 megabytes long. There are several history tables that
are not needed for day-to-day operation of our system. I came up with a DOS
batch file that consists of a sequence of pg_dump commands. The first dumps
the database's schema, and all the rest dump the required tables into
individual files. A companion batch file issues psql repeatedly to recreate
the database and the tables.
On my computer, the batch files work fine. I run them and they happily call
pg_dump or psql as many times as they need to, and I don't need to do
anything.
I just uploaded the batch files to our customer's machine, and a couple of
questions occured to me. First, pg_dump asks me for a password every time it
is invoked. That doesn't happen on my computer. What is likely to be set up
differently on my computer so that I don't need a password?
Second, I see no way to select a server in pg_dump or psql. I am connected to
a computer that was set up for my use specifically for testing. In PGAdmin on
that machine, I have a server talking to localhost and a server talking to the
machine that hosts the production database. I would like to run my batch file
on the testing machine, but how do I tell pg_dump to use the server that talks
to the production machine?
Thank you very much!
RobR
