On 6/10/21 2:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > "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). > > Ouch. That looks like a plain old bug. Let's fix it. IIRC I just used the same logic that we use for pg_dump's --exclude-* options, so we need to check if they have similar issues. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
