Re: Exclude pg_largeobject form pg_dump

Hi,

2016-11-03 8:22 GMT+01:00 amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com>:

> Hi Guillaume,
>
> With your v2 patch, -B options working as expected but --no-blobs
> options is still unrecognized, this happens is because of you have
> forgot to add entry for 'no-blobs' in long_options[] array.
>
>
You're right. v3 (attached) fixes this.


> Apart from this concern patch looks good to me. Thanks
>
>
Thanks.


> Regards,
> Amul
>
> The new status of this patch is: Waiting on Author
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:19 AM, Guillaume Lelarge
> <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
> > 2016-10-23 20:44 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>:
> >>
> >> 2016-10-23 20:37 GMT+02:00 Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>:
> >>>
> >>> På søndag 23. oktober 2016 kl. 19:15:17, skrev Andreas Joseph Krogh
> >>> <andreas@visena.com>:
> >>>
> >>> På søndag 23. oktober 2016 kl. 17:06:57, skrev Guillaume Lelarge
> >>> <guillaume@lelarge.info>:
> >>>
> >>> 2016-03-08 21:06 GMT+01:00 Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 21:03:01, skrev David G. Johnston
> >>>> <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh
> >>>> <andreas@visena.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 17:38:04, skrev Joshua D. Drake
> >>>>> <jd@commandprompt.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 03/08/2016 08:02 AM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> >>>>> > På tirsdag 08. mars 2016 kl. 16:57:01, skrev Tom Lane
> >>>>> > <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
> >>>>> > <mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>>:
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >     Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com> writes:
> >>>>> >      > What I'm looking for is "inverse -b" in an otherwise
> complete
> >>>>> >     dump. Any plans
> >>>>> >      > to add that?
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >     [ shrug... ]  Nobody ever asked for it before.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >     regards, tom lane
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > It surely helps testing production-datasets which contain lots of
> >>>>> > BLOBs
> >>>>> > where one wants to dump the production-data into a test-env. We
> have
> >>>>> >  >1TB databases containing > 95% blobs so it would help us
> >>>>> > tremendously
> >>>>> > to have this option.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have quite a few customers that would benefit from the ability to
> not
> >>>>> have blobs present in dumps.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Great! So how do we proceed to get "--no-blobs" added to pg_dump?
> >>>>> Maybe CommandPrompt and Visena should co-fund development of such an
> >>>>> addition, if it's accepted by -hackers?
> >>>>> We'd be willing to pay for such an addition for the 9.5 branch, as a
> >>>>> patch.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately this doesn't qualify as a bug fix - it is a new feature
> >>>> and thus is ineligible for inclusion in official 9.5
> >>>>
> >>>> David J.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course. That's why I mentioned that, if possible, an unofficial
> patch
> >>>> to 9.5 could be developed, funded partly by Visena (my company).
> Given that
> >>>> someone is willing to do this of course.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That probably should look like the patch attached. It applies cleanly
> on
> >>> HEAD, and works AFAICT. If this patch seems interesting enough, I'll
> add it
> >>> to the next commit fest (note for myself, update the ref/pg_dump.sgml
> >>> documentation file).
> >>>
> >>> For Andreas' information, it also applies on 9.5, though I didn't check
> >>> if it worked afterwards.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> +1 for adding it to the commitfest.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Done, https://commitfest.postgresql.org/11/833/
> >>
> >>> It's almost scary how simple this patch is and noone ever got around to
> >>> implement it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Nobody had the time (like me, till now) or the motivation.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, I'll test it on 9.5 soon.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It's totally OK for me to use 9.6 (now that it's released) to dump 9.5
> >>> DBs, so I'm all good with this patch, thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >> Remember that, if it gets commited, it'll be for next release (aka 10),
> >> and not 9.6 and earlier.
> >>
> >
> > New patch, this time with the documentation.
> >
> >
>



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