Re: Backing up a DB excluding certain tables

On 4/28/22 09:57, JORGE MALDONADO wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> Here is the output to commands suggested by *Adrian Klaver*. Encoding is 
> the same in both client and server. Also, there are 7 tables I want to 
> exclude.
> image.png
> The version of source DB is 11, and target version is 14.
> 
> Regarding the following comment:
> 
>     *FYI, -n riopoderoso and the riopoderoso in
>     'riopoderoso."AspNetRoleClaims"' are redundant.*
> 
> 
> Should I remove the schema name so the exclude switch is *-T "AspNet"* 
> instead of *-T 'riopoderoso."AspNet"'?*

As Tom Lane pointed out earlier -n riopoderoso is going to restrict the 
dump to objects in the riopoderoso schema so schema qualifying the table 
name is not needed.

> 
> I have tried -T 'riopoderoso."Asp*"',  -T 'riopoderoso."Asp"*', -T 
> '"Asp"*', -T "Asp"*' and several other combinations unsuccessfully. 
> Also, I have escaped double quotes, single quotes and both at the same 
> time using the *^* character as documented in several sources.

I don't use Windows much anymore and not all for Postgres so I can't 
comment on this. Someone who does will need to offer guidance.


> Can I run the *pg_dump* command in *psql*? I rarely use psql.

No you can't run pg_dump in psql. Speaking of psql, what happens when 
you log in with it? Do you get a code page warning?


> 
> Regards,
> Jorge Maldonado
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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