Re: pg_dumpall --exclude

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Richard Ray wrote:
>> I've inherited an application that creates a temp schema and stores
>> a table for each user there.
>> The data is temporary and does not need to be backed up.
>> I run pg_dumpall each night.
>> I can't just delete the tables because users may be working during the
>> backup.
>> Any suggestion on how to exclude the temp schema?
>
> You don't say what version of Postgres you are using but 8.2 added this
> feature:

sorry bout that, 8.2.5

>
>     * Allow complex selection of objects to be included or excluded by
>       pg_dump (Greg Sabino Mullane) pg_dump now supports multiple -n
>       (schema) and -t (table) options, and adds -N and -T options to
>       exclude objects.  Also, the arguments of these switches can now be
>       wild-card expressions rather than single object names, for example
>       -t 'foo*', and a schema can be part of a -t or -T switch, for
>       example -t schema1.table1.

I use pg_dumpall to get all changes to the server including users, groups,
etc.
If I use pg_dump what might the command look like that would accomplish
the same as pg_dumpall

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