Philip, I'm trying to make the process you describe automatic. A script reads objects definitoin from an .sql file and automatically deletes linkes from 'listfile' corresponding to objects already found in the given .sql file.
As for my problem (detecting CASTS) I had to support lines in the form: >From PG73: 552; 2663984 CAST bytea (public.wkb) >From PG74: 547; 1915318 CAST CAST (public.wkb AS bytea) Since these two dumps have same file format version I asked.. --strk; On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:05:09PM +1000, Philip Warner wrote: > At 08:53 PM 13/08/2004, strk wrote: > >Commenting out lines from the dump corresponding to objects that > >will be defined by another script. > > I may have misunderstood, but try: > > pg_restore -l dumpfile > listfile > > then delete lines from listfile that you do not want, and do: > > pg_restore -L listfile dumpfile > > and it will only restore the items corresponding to lines in listfile. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Philip Warner | __---_____ > Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd. |----/ - \ > (A.B.N. 75 008 659 498) | /(@) ______---_ > Tel: (+61) 0500 83 82 81 | _________ \ > Fax: (+61) 03 5330 3172 | ___________ | > Http://www.rhyme.com.au | / \| > | --________-- > PGP key available upon request, | / > and from pgp.mit.edu:11371 |/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings