Re: Truncate on pg_dump / pg_restore

You can, assuming you start off with a pg_dump in custom format (use -Fc). You can use pg_restore's -l option to drop
outthe list contents of the archive, and then comment out whatever you do not want restored:<br /><br /><br />pg_dump
-Fc....... > your_db.dump<br /><br />pg_restore -l your_db.dump > your_db.list<br /><br /># edit your_db.list and
commentout whatever you don't need (or reorder if needed)<br /><br /># use your_db.list for the actual restore:<br
/><br/>pg_restore -L your_db.list your_db.dump<br /><strong class="userinput"><code></code></strong><br /><br />Look at
theexamples on:<br /><br /><a
href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/app-pgrestore.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/app-pgrestore.html</a><br
/><br/><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com">bryce2@obviously.com</a>></span>wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
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text="#000000"><br/><br /> chris smith wrote: <blockquote type="cite"><pre>On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bryce
Nesbitt<a href="mailto:bryce2@obviously.com" target="_blank"><bryce2@obviously.com></a> wrote: </pre><blockquote
type="cite"><pre>I'vegot
 
tables with pretty disposable data... meaning I want to drop the data...
but restore empty indexed tables at pg_restore time.   </pre></blockquote><pre>Do a schema-only dump.
pg_dump --help says use '-s' or '--schema-only'. </pre></blockquote> Ooops, I was unclear.  I want most of the data! 
Thereare just a few tables that I'd prefer be empty (truncated) in the restored database.  Most of the tables (and
thereare lots) are valuable.<br /><br /> Could I  dump --schema-only, dump full, dump the toc, comment out the tables
fromthe toc, restore the --schema-only, then restore the dump (minus the contents of the unwanted tables)?<br /><br
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