Re: New pg_dump options: exclude tables/schemas, multiple all, wildcards

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> Attached is a patch to hopefully make pg_dump a lot more useful.
> I started out by making it simply able to avoid dumping a single
> table, but, inspired by David Fetter's patch last November, also
> added in support for multiple items and limited wildcard matching.

I wonder if there's a way to have the server process the matching?  That
way we could have LIKE expressions in the switches, which would be
simpler in the code and more powerful.  I don't know how pg_dump works
so I can't really answer the question.  We desperately need this
capability however, as patches have been floating since before 8.0 and
we still don't have it.

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Alvaro Herrera                           Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org
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