Re: Dump all except some tables?

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:32:26PM -0700, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:51:22AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > WireSpot <wirespot@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On 10/6/05, A. Kretschmer <akretschmer@despammed.com> wrote:
> > >> You can use the -t more than once.
> > >>
> > >> pg_dump -U foobar database -t foo -t foo1
> >
> > > Yes, pg_dump doesn't complain. But it only takes the first one
> > > into consideration. I only get one table in the dump.
> >
> > Right.  That's on the TODO list but not done yet :-(.
>
> There have been several patches against pg_dump to do both
> multiple-table inclusion and multiple-table exclusion.  These may get
> into 8.2, as they missed 8.1.

Looking at the archived discussion from the TODO
(http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?pg_dump), I find myself
wondering if it would be good to allow for specifying a set of rules for
what to dump in a file, probably something like a set of regexes with a
way to specify if it's an include or exclude rule. Seems like it would
be a heck of a lot simpler to do that for complex cases than deal with a
pile of spaghetti on the command-line, but I've never really worried
about it.
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