I have a table which has an oid column. When I'm taking a backup of this table, it takes complete oids (complete blob / oids backup). But my table only has 10 entries (which is approximately 30 entries in pg_largeobject table). I read the following link and added -o and -b to the backup parameters.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/app-pgdump.html
I am using below command to take backup.
pg_dump -i -h myhost -p 5432 -U myuser -F c -v -t schema.my_table -o -b -f mytablebkp.backup "mydb"
Is anything wrong with that command? How can I take a backup of only the specific table with only those blobs that belong to it?
Update:
I read the following from documentation (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/app-pgrestore.html),
pg_restore cannot restore large objects selectively; for instance, only those for a specific table. If an archive contains large objects, then all large objects will be restored, or none of them if they are excluded via -L, -t, or other options
Since pg_restore can not do selective restore, is there no way / possibility to take selective table backups with blob / oid ?
1 Answer 1
The oid
column are avaliable in all tables, and I believe thats not a issue.
To create a logical dump of this table, you just need add a option -b
(or --blobs
in the pg_dump
arguments, eg:
pg_dump \
-U user\
-t table_name \
--blobs \
-f dump_file_name \
database_name
Another options will be useful is the -F c
(or --format=custom
) to change the default format from plain
to custom
.
Please take a look at the documentation for more details: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgdump.html
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i am not clear with first point. Is all tables having oid by default even table script not having any oid datatypes?. And -b takes complete blob backup (not only the mentioned table's oids).RBB– RBB2016年08月04日 05:12:01 +00:00Commented Aug 4, 2016 at 5:12
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1'The oid column are avaliable in all tables' - well, that's not true unless you create your tables with
WITH OIDS
. At least not true in recent (last 15 years or so ;) versions. Also, the OP has all these options in there command already, so what does your answer add that they don't already know?András Váczi– András Váczi2016年08月05日 08:15:05 +00:00Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 8:15
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