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Wasim Devale <wasimd60@gmail.com> writes:
> I did one thing, we can exclude the toast table in the pg_dump command that
> has the BLOBS data for a particular table.
> --exclude-table-data=pg_toast.pg_toast_10176226

Utterly pointless.  pg_dump does not dump toast tables as such;
it's only concerned with their parent "regular" tables.  It will
fetch data from the regular tables, and it's not concerned with
the server-side implementation detail that some of that data
might be coming out of a toast table.

			regards, tom lane