On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Richard Ray wrote:
I've inherited an application that creates a temp schema and stores
a table for each user there.
The data is temporary and does not need to be backed up.
I run pg_dumpall each night.
I can't just delete the tables because users may be working during the
backup.
Any suggestion on how to exclude the temp schema?
You don't say what version of Postgres you are using but 8.2 added this
feature:
sorry bout that, 8.2.5
* Allow complex selection of objects to be included or excluded by
pg_dump (Greg Sabino Mullane) pg_dump now supports multiple -n
(schema) and -t (table) options, and adds -N and -T options to
exclude objects. Also, the arguments of these switches can now be
wild-card expressions rather than single object names, for example
-t 'foo*', and a schema can be part of a -t or -T switch, for
example -t schema1.table1.
I use pg_dumpall to get all changes to the server including users, groups,
etc.
If I use pg_dump what might the command look like that would accomplish
the same as pg_dumpall
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