Re: Dump only part of a DB

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:09, David F. Skoll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> pg_dump can be used to dump an entire database, or just a single
> table.  Is there a way to make a consistent dump of more than one
> table, but less than all of the tables in the database?  Doing a bunch
> of single-table pg_dumps isn't really an option, because some tables
> may change during the dumps, leading to constraint violations if we
> try to restore them.
>
> Rationale:  We have an application that makes a nightly dump of its
> database.  There's one particular table that tends to be large, but happily
> it's not critical if it's lost -- no real need to back it up.  So we'd
> like to back up everything except that one large, non-critical table.

If you put the application's data into a specific schema, then you can
dump just that schema with the -n switch...