On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 10:14, David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 8, 2018, czezz <cz...@o2.pl> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> I want to aks if anyone knows is there a way to search for specific "value" >> throughout list of tables OR all tables in databse? > > > Can you pg_dump your database to plain text and search that? Nothing built > in provides that ability though you possibly could work up something using > dynamic sql.
If there are some tables that are extraordinarily large that would not be good candidates, this could be excessively expensive. If you can identify a specific set of tables that are good candidates, then a faster option might involve: pg_dump --data-only --table=this_table --table=that_table --table=other_table databaseURI or, if there are only a few tables to omit... pg_dump --data-only --exclude-table=this_irrelevant_big_table --exclude-table=another_big_irrelevant_table databaseURI -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
