You can, assuming you start off with a pg_dump in custom format (use -Fc). You can use pg_restore's -l option to drop out the list contents of the archive, and then comment out whatever you do not want restored:
pg_dump -Fc ....... > your_db.dump pg_restore -l your_db.dump > your_db.list # edit your_db.list and comment out whatever you don't need (or reorder if needed) # use your_db.list for the actual restore: pg_restore -L your_db.list your_db.dump ** Look at the examples on: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/app-pgrestore.html On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Bryce Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > chris smith wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got > tables with pretty disposable data... meaning I want to drop the data... > but restore empty indexed tables at pg_restore time. > > > Do a schema-only dump. > pg_dump --help says use '-s' or '--schema-only'. > > > Ooops, I was unclear. I want most of the data! There are just a few > tables that I'd prefer be empty (truncated) in the restored database. Most > of the tables (and there are lots) are valuable. > > Could I dump --schema-only, dump full, dump the toc, comment out the > tables from the toc, restore the --schema-only, then restore the dump (minus > the contents of the unwanted tables)? > >
