Re: Enhancement to pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rob Kirkbride
Subject Re: Enhancement to pg_dump
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Msg-id e0b3cb2b0811251255x2d3ecb3fn50f1b51288d57428@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Enhancement to pg_dump  ("Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Dave,

Ok thanks. Yes, we've got over 1/2 billion rows in one of our tables which is interesting!

Will post back soon.

Rob

2008/11/25 Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Rob Kirkbride <rob.kirkbride@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very new to hacking postgresql but am using on a very big site
> (http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk). One of the issues that we have is moving
> data from a live database to a reports one. I've hacked an extra option to
> pg_dump to delete from tables rather than dropping them.

National Rail use Postgres for their journey planner? Cool :-)

> Once I'm happy with it (I'm a bit rusty at C!), do I post the patch here?

Yes (and please add details to
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/CommitFestOpen so it doesn't get
lost), but please note that we're in the middle of the final phase of
the development cycle at the moment, so new patches are unlikely to be
looked at for at least a couple of months.


--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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