On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 13:19 +1200, Brent Wood wrote: > > On Mon, 8 May 2006, Blair Lowe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have had this problem for a while, and have not been able to find > > anything in the archives or on search engines: > > > > If I want to back up a client's database on our shared web server, I > > would type: > > > > pg_dump <database_name> Thanks Brent, comments below ... > > try pgdump -t <table> .... to just get the tables you want exported. Good idea, but too many clients, too many tables and too little time :) > > or implement a separate schema (not public) for the tables your app uses & > use pg_dump -n <schema> to avoid all the public tables in the public > schema. I cannot control what my clients do, and I want to back them all up in separate areas so that they cannot see each other's data in a backup. I like this idea, but I would have to do this for each client, no? > > or fire up a new postgres server (postmaster) process at a different port > talking to a separate Postgres database location, so other users don't > create superfluous tables, etc in "your" database. Any application should > take a port as an argument in the connect parameter string.... Expensive to run tons of postgres at the same time. The ultimate solution is to run a Xen server so I don't have to worry about any stupid things that my clients or their software packages do. > > > HTH, > > Brent Wood > > > > Since we are running a shared server, and since crappy (only because of > > this problem) off the shelf database open source software such as > > oscommerce, or phpBB2 grants access to public rather than the web user > > "www" or "nobody", when I do a pg_dump for a database, I get all the > > databases on the system that grant to PUBLIC being dumped with with > > database that I want. > > > > To restore, I need to go in and prune out all the extra junk that was > > granted to PUBLIC by other users in other databases - very time > > consuming. > > > > How can I use pg_dump to get JUST the database in th argument, and not > > other tables and databases that have granted to PUBLIC? > > > > Altering my client's software to grant to "nobody" is not practical. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Blair. > > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > >
