Re: BUG #16732: pg_dump creates broken backups

On 2020-Nov-21, Zsolt Ero wrote:

> I didn't state why I'm doing all this: basically all I'd like to do is
> exclude a table when restoring data.
> The only way I managed to do this was to grep -v the list file before data
> only restore.

Why do you do that?  It seems much easier to produce a complete dump,
then obtain the --list from it, do "grep -v" of the TABLE DATA element
for that table, then give that file to pg_restore.  It would restore
everything in the right order, including that table's definition, but
excluding that table's data.