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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) <postgresql@mailpen.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: AWS forcing PG upgrade from v9.6 a disaster
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:00:17 -0400
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"Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@mailpen.com> writes:
> On 2021-06-10 09:54, Ranier Vilela wrote:
>> Your cmd lacks =
>> =>pg_dumpall -U Admin --exclude-database=MailPen >zzz.sql

> I read that before posting, but missed that.  Old command line patterns 
> die hard!
> However, the result was the same:  3.5GB before running out of space.

[ experiments... ]  Looks like you gotta do it like this:

	pg_dumpall '--exclude-database="MailPen"' ...

This surprises me, as I thought it was project policy not to
case-fold command-line arguments (precisely because you end
up needing weird quoting to prevent that).

			regards, tom lane





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