Re: Dump only part of a DB

Tom Lane wrote:
> "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com> writes:
> > pg_dump can be used to dump an entire database, or just a single
> > table.  Is there a way to make a consistent dump of more than one
> > table, but less than all of the tables in the database?
>
> This has been discussed before, and I think we had agreed that the
> Right Thing is to make pg_dump accept more than one -t switch (also
> more than one -n switch, at the schema level), and dump anything
> that matches any -t or -n switch.
>
> No one's got round to making this happen, but it seems like it
> should not be a big job.  Want to send in a patch?

Added to TODO:

    * Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches

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