On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé <l.r...@griensu.com>wrote:
> Hi, I'm backing up a big database using the --exclude-table option for > two tables, say table1 and table2. Then another backup of only those > tables, so, the final result are three backup files. > > basic.backup > table1.backup > table2.backup > > The problem I'm facing is at the restore moment is that basic.backup > contains view definitions related to table1 or table2, hence, the > restore does not create those views. > > How do you recommend to workaround this?. > > P.S.: I create three files because table1 and table2 are tables with > blob data, and we use basic.backup to create testing database where we > don't need blob data. > The --section option of pg_dump might allow you dump the views separately. Alternatively, if you know the names of the views that will fail, you could pg_dump as you are doing now, but in custom format (-Fc), then use pg_restore to create a list file from the contents, comment out the views, pg_restore using the list file (minus those views), then pg_dump using another list file with *only* those views.
