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From: dfgpostgres <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Can "on delete cascade" dependency be used in pgdump or similar ?
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:39:39 -0500
Message-ID: <CAAcmDX_zrfbQ2ixpGH_92SqeM=OJs5wPuW2_F-P+SefjoQGUOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

pg 15.15 on linux

I have a DB with a table called "projects" which has a primary key column
called "project".  Other child tables are linked in a primary/foreign key
relationship to "projects" with "on delete cascade".  Each of those may
have grandchild tables linked in via other primary/foreign key
relationships, all with the "on delete cascade".  Etc... .  If I delete
project "a", it'll cascade delete the children,  grandchild, etc...  recs.
All traces of project "a" will be gone.

But I don't really want to lose the data from project "a", I want to
archive it in another DB (same DB server, different DB).  The brain-numb
method I've been using thus far is to copy the whole DB via pgdump then use
that to create the DB "a_archive".  Then (here's the wasteful part)
basically delete all the projects in "a-archive" EXCEPT for project "a".
Then, when that's done, go to the main DB and delete project "a". In
effect, I just archived all the data for project "a" and put it in the DB
called "a_archive".while relieving the main DB of the project "a" data. But
what would be really neat is to leverage that cascade on delete stuff to
just pgdump project "a" and use that to create "a_archive".

Can pgdump do something like that ?
Is there a better way to approach this problem of archiving one project
(remembering that we do have the "on delete cascade" set up) ?

Thanks in Advance !

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