Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A26A7650148 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 79699-08-2 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:39 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1289164FEF9 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:50:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7SFoJ64011941; Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:50:19 -0400 (EDT) To: Rick cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: excluding tables In-reply-to: <1219881137.624295@no.spam> References: <1219881137.624295@no.spam> Comments: In-reply-to Rick message dated "Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:52:17 -0500" Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:50:18 -0400 Message-ID: <11940.1219938618@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200808/220 X-Sequence-Number: 30065 Rick writes: > Is there a way to get pg_dumpall to exclude a table or > do I have to dump the tables indivually with pg_dump? No, pg_dumpall doesn't have any provision for passing different switches for different databases to its invocations of pg_dump. Recommended practice here would be to combine pg_dumpall -g with the results of manual per-database invocations of pg_dump. regards, tom lane