Re: Pg_dump and bytaA

[Achilleas Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>]

Στις Πέμπτη 08 Μάρτιος 2007 22:02, ο/η Lukas έγραψε:
> Hello,
>
>  we have one table in database (db has over 200 tables), which has one
> byteA filed for storing user photos. We are making backup every night, but
> it is now too large because of photos. We do not need to make backup of
> photos every night, but the question is how to backup database without
> this field?
>  I tried to look at keys of pgdump, but found nothing...

This isnt directly possible.
You could have a mirror of the database,
and nullify these bytea columns in the mirror db before 
taking the dump of this mirror db.

>
> Now we are using it like this:
> pg_dump -f /home/backup/DB.sql -d -Fp -v DB
>
> thx
> Lukas

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Achilleas Mantzios