On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:13:35PM +1000, Akheel Ahmed wrote:
> Hi Group
>
> I am looking at doing a CDC-based upgrade using the following steps:
>
>
> 1. pg_dump schema on source, but exclude indexes and triggers
>
> 2. recreate schema on target
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> 3. Do a full load from source to target
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> 4. Recreate all the indexes and triggers on the target
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> The migration will automatically switch from full load to CDC when all
> tables are fully loaded.
>
> Is there a way to just recreate all indexes and triggers using a separate
> pg_dump on source to capture the ddl and then run it on the target?
There is no need for separate pg_dump.
Just dump once, with -Fc, or (better) -Fd, and then use pg_restore
-l/-L.
depesz