"Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2021-06-10 09:54, Ranier Vilela wrote: >> Your cmd lacks = >> =>pg_dumpall -U Admin --exclude-database=MailPen >zzz.sql > I read that before posting, but missed that. Old command line patterns > die hard! > However, the result was the same: 3.5GB before running out of space. [ experiments... ] Looks like you gotta do it like this: pg_dumpall '--exclude-database="MailPen"' ... This surprises me, as I thought it was project policy not to case-fold command-line arguments (precisely because you end up needing weird quoting to prevent that). regards, tom lane
