On 28/12/2009 20:20, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:39:36 +0000
> Raymond O'Donnell <r...@iol.ie> wrote:
> 
>> On 28/12/2009 18:41, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to just dump the table schema without dumping the table
>>> contend.
> 
>> pg_dump -s -t <table name> <db name>
> 
> My fault. I was not clear enough.
> I'd like to make a "mostly" full backup, excluding from backup just
> the data of some tables but backing up the schema of those tables.
> 
> mmm let me try if
> 
> pg_dump -Fc -Z9 -s -t *.cache* -d mydb > schema_only.bak
> pg_dump -Fc -Z9 -T *.cache* -d mydb > nearly_full.bak
> 
> cat nearly_full.bak schema_only.bak | pg_restore -1 -d mydb
> 
> It seems it is working... I'll test if everything is there.

I don't think you can do it in one step with a single invocation of
pg_dump - I reckon what you've come up with there is the way to go.

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
r...@iol.ie

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