Re: Does pg_dumpall do BLOBs too?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:38:01PM +0100, Frank Joerdens wrote:
> The man page for pg_dumpall does not mention anything about BLOBs,
> whereas the man page for pg_dump does. Does that mean you can't dump out
> everything at once if you have databases with BLOBs on your server? (I
> need to dump and reload everything cuz my new app wants a NAMEDATALEN of
> 64).
>
As I understand it, pg_dumpall calls pg_dump, so if pg_dump backups blobs, so
would pg_dumpall.

Safest way of finding out whether your data is backed up safely or not is
trying to restore after a backup. Never trust any backup scheme without trying
it.

> Regards, Frank
>
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