Re: pg_dump excluding tables content but not table schema

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> writes:
> It seems that you have to actually restore the 2 backup separately.
>
> pg_restore -1 -d mydb < nearly_full.bak
> pg_restore -1 -d mydb < schema_only.bak
>
> I can't think of any other way to restore both in one transaction
> unless I backup in plain text. But that should have other drawback.
>
> Any hint?

In general what I do is backup it all then filter at restore time,
editing the restore catalog (see pg_restore options -l and
-L).

Incidentally I've written code for automating this for me, that's called
pg_staging and is available at github and already is in debian (I miss a
source release so that RPM will follow):

  http://github.com/dimitri/pg_staging

Regards,
--
dim