"Carlos Oliva" <car...@pbsinet.com> writes:
> Is there a way to create a database or a table of a database in its own 
> folder?  We are looking for ways to backup the sytem files of the database 
> to tape and one to exclude some tables from this backup.  We can selectively 
> backup folders of the file system so we figure that if we can create a 
> schema or database or table in its own folder, we can backup our database 
> and exclude the tables selectively.  We are using Linux RedHat.  Thank you.

If you want to backup specific tables, then you should make use of
pg_dump, which, as of 8.3, has the ability to:
 a) Dump named tables, via the -t option, or
 b) exclude named tables, via the -T option

That is the appropriate way to selectively backup portions of the
database.
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