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NAME

       pg_dump - extract a PostgreSQL database into a script file or other archive file

SYNOPSIS

       pg_dump [connection-option...] [option...] [dbname]

DESCRIPTION

       pg_dump is a utility for backing up a PostgreSQL database. It makes consistent backups even if the
       database is being used concurrently.  pg_dump does not block other users accessing the database (readers
       or writers).

       pg_dump only dumps a single database. To back up an entire cluster, or to back up global objects that are
       common to all databases in a cluster (such as roles and tablespaces), use pg_dumpall(1).

       Dumps can be output in script or archive file formats. Script dumps are plain-text files containing the
       SQL commands required to reconstruct the database to the state it was in at the time it was saved. To
       restore from such a script, feed it to psql(1). Script files can be used to reconstruct the database even
       on other machines and other architectures; with some modifications, even on other SQL database products.

       The alternative archive file formats must be used with pg_restore(1) to rebuild the database. They allow
       pg_restore to be selective about what is restored, or even to reorder the items prior to being restored.
       The archive file formats are designed to be portable across architectures.

       When used with one of the archive file formats and combined with pg_restore, pg_dump provides a flexible
       archival and transfer mechanism.  pg_dump can be used to backup an entire database, then pg_restore can
       be used to examine the archive and/or select which parts of the database are to be restored. The most
       flexible output file formats are the “custom” format (-Fc) and the “directory” format (-Fd). They allow
       for selection and reordering of all archived items, support parallel restoration, and are compressed by
       default. The “directory” format is the only format that supports parallel dumps.

       While running pg_dump, one should examine the output for any warnings (printed on standard error),
       especially in light of the limitations listed below.

OPTIONS

       The following command-line options control the content and format of the output.

       dbname
           Specifies the name of the database to be dumped. If this is not specified, the environment variable
           PGDATABASE is used. If that is not set, the user name specified for the connection is used.

       -a
       --data-only
           Dump only the data, not the schema (data definitions). Table data, large objects, and sequence values
           are dumped.

           This option is similar to, but for historical reasons not identical to, specifying --section=data.

       -b
       --blobs
           Include large objects in the dump. This is the default behavior except when --schema, --table, or
           --schema-only is specified. The -b switch is therefore only useful to add large objects to dumps
           where a specific schema or table has been requested. Note that blobs are considered data and
           therefore will be included when --data-only is used, but not when --schema-only is.

       -B
       --no-blobs
           Exclude large objects in the dump.

           When both -b and -B are given, the behavior is to output large objects, when data is being dumped,
           see the -b documentation.

       -c
       --clean
           Output commands to DROP all the dumped database objects prior to outputting the commands for creating
           them. This option is useful when the restore is to overwrite an existing database. If any of the
           objects do not exist in the destination database, ignorable error messages will be reported during
           restore, unless --if-exists is also specified.

           This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you
           can specify the option when you call pg_restore.

       -C
       --create
           Begin the output with a command to create the database itself and reconnect to the created database.
           (With a script of this form, it doesn't matter which database in the destination installation you
           connect to before running the script.) If --clean is also specified, the script drops and recreates
           the target database before reconnecting to it.

           With --create, the output also includes the database's comment if any, and any configuration variable
           settings that are specific to this database, that is, any ALTER DATABASE ... SET ...  and ALTER ROLE
           ... IN DATABASE ... SET ...  commands that mention this database. Access privileges for the database
           itself are also dumped, unless --no-acl is specified.

           This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you
           can specify the option when you call pg_restore.

       -E encoding
       --encoding=encoding
           Create the dump in the specified character set encoding. By default, the dump is created in the
           database encoding. (Another way to get the same result is to set the PGCLIENTENCODING environment
           variable to the desired dump encoding.)

       -f file
       --file=file
           Send output to the specified file. This parameter can be omitted for file based output formats, in
           which case the standard output is used. It must be given for the directory output format however,
           where it specifies the target directory instead of a file. In this case the directory is created by
           pg_dump and must not exist before.

       -F format
       --format=format
           Selects the format of the output.  format can be one of the following:

           p
           plain
               Output a plain-text SQL script file (the default).

           c
           custom
               Output a custom-format archive suitable for input into pg_restore. Together with the directory
               output format, this is the most flexible output format in that it allows manual selection and
               reordering of archived items during restore. This format is also compressed by default.

           d
           directory
               Output a directory-format archive suitable for input into pg_restore. This will create a
               directory with one file for each table and blob being dumped, plus a so-called Table of Contents
               file describing the dumped objects in a machine-readable format that pg_restore can read. A
               directory format archive can be manipulated with standard Unix tools; for example, files in an
               uncompressed archive can be compressed with the gzip tool. This format is compressed by default
               and also supports parallel dumps.

           t
           tar
               Output a tar-format archive suitable for input into pg_restore. The tar format is compatible with
               the directory format: extracting a tar-format archive produces a valid directory-format archive.
               However, the tar format does not support compression. Also, when using tar format the relative
               order of table data items cannot be changed during restore.

       -j njobs
       --jobs=njobs
           Run the dump in parallel by dumping njobs tables simultaneously. This option reduces the time of the
           dump but it also increases the load on the database server. You can only use this option with the
           directory output format because this is the only output format where multiple processes can write
           their data at the same time.

           pg_dump will open njobs + 1 connections to the database, so make sure your max_connections setting is
           high enough to accommodate all connections.

           Requesting exclusive locks on database objects while running a parallel dump could cause the dump to
           fail. The reason is that the pg_dump master process requests shared locks on the objects that the
           worker processes are going to dump later in order to make sure that nobody deletes them and makes
           them go away while the dump is running. If another client then requests an exclusive lock on a table,
           that lock will not be granted but will be queued waiting for the shared lock of the master process to
           be released. Consequently any other access to the table will not be granted either and will queue
           after the exclusive lock request. This includes the worker process trying to dump the table. Without
           any precautions this would be a classic deadlock situation. To detect this conflict, the pg_dump
           worker process requests another shared lock using the NOWAIT option. If the worker process is not
           granted this shared lock, somebody else must have requested an exclusive lock in the meantime and
           there is no way to continue with the dump, so pg_dump has no choice but to abort the dump.

           For a consistent backup, the database server needs to support synchronized snapshots, a feature that
           was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.2 for primary servers and 10 for standbys. With this feature, database
           clients can ensure they see the same data set even though they use different connections.  pg_dump -j
           uses multiple database connections; it connects to the database once with the master process and once
           again for each worker job. Without the synchronized snapshot feature, the different worker jobs
           wouldn't be guaranteed to see the same data in each connection, which could lead to an inconsistent
           backup.

           If you want to run a parallel dump of a pre-9.2 server, you need to make sure that the database
           content doesn't change from between the time the master connects to the database until the last
           worker job has connected to the database. The easiest way to do this is to halt any data modifying
           processes (DDL and DML) accessing the database before starting the backup. You also need to specify
           the --no-synchronized-snapshots parameter when running pg_dump -j against a pre-9.2 PostgreSQL
           server.

       -n pattern
       --schema=pattern
           Dump only schemas matching pattern; this selects both the schema itself, and all its contained
           objects. When this option is not specified, all non-system schemas in the target database will be
           dumped. Multiple schemas can be selected by writing multiple -n switches. The pattern parameter is
           interpreted as a pattern according to the same rules used by psql's \d commands (see Patterns), so
           multiple schemas can also be selected by writing wildcard characters in the pattern. When using
           wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern if needed to prevent the shell from expanding the
           wildcards; see EXAMPLES.

               Note
               When -n is specified, pg_dump makes no attempt to dump any other database objects that the
               selected schema(s) might depend upon. Therefore, there is no guarantee that the results of a
               specific-schema dump can be successfully restored by themselves into a clean database.

               Note
               Non-schema objects such as blobs are not dumped when -n is specified. You can add blobs back to
               the dump with the --blobs switch.

       -N pattern
       --exclude-schema=pattern
           Do not dump any schemas matching pattern. The pattern is interpreted according to the same rules as
           for -n.  -N can be given more than once to exclude schemas matching any of several patterns.

           When both -n and -N are given, the behavior is to dump just the schemas that match at least one -n
           switch but no -N switches. If -N appears without -n, then schemas matching -N are excluded from what
           is otherwise a normal dump.

       -O
       --no-owner
           Do not output commands to set ownership of objects to match the original database. By default,
           pg_dump issues ALTER OWNER or SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION statements to set ownership of created
           database objects. These statements will fail when the script is run unless it is started by a
           superuser (or the same user that owns all of the objects in the script). To make a script that can be
           restored by any user, but will give that user ownership of all the objects, specify -O.

           This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you
           can specify the option when you call pg_restore.

       -R
       --no-reconnect
           This option is obsolete but still accepted for backwards compatibility.

       -s
       --schema-only
           Dump only the object definitions (schema), not data.

           This option is the inverse of --data-only. It is similar to, but for historical reasons not identical
           to, specifying --section=pre-data --section=post-data.

           (Do not confuse this with the --schema option, which uses the word “schema” in a different meaning.)

           To exclude table data for only a subset of tables in the database, see --exclude-table-data.

       -S username
       --superuser=username
           Specify the superuser user name to use when disabling triggers. This is relevant only if
           --disable-triggers is used. (Usually, it's better to leave this out, and instead start the resulting
           script as superuser.)

       -t pattern
       --table=pattern
           Dump only tables with names matching pattern. For this purpose, “table” includes views, materialized
           views, sequences, and foreign tables. Multiple tables can be selected by writing multiple -t
           switches. The pattern parameter is interpreted as a pattern according to the same rules used by
           psql's \d commands (see Patterns), so multiple tables can also be selected by writing wildcard
           characters in the pattern. When using wildcards, be careful to quote the pattern if needed to prevent
           the shell from expanding the wildcards; see EXAMPLES.

           The -n and -N switches have no effect when -t is used, because tables selected by -t will be dumped
           regardless of those switches, and non-table objects will not be dumped.

               Note
               When -t is specified, pg_dump makes no attempt to dump any other database objects that the
               selected table(s) might depend upon. Therefore, there is no guarantee that the results of a
               specific-table dump can be successfully restored by themselves into a clean database.

               Note
               The behavior of the -t switch is not entirely upward compatible with pre-8.2 PostgreSQL versions.
               Formerly, writing -t tab would dump all tables named tab, but now it just dumps whichever one is
               visible in your default search path. To get the old behavior you can write -t '*.tab'. Also, you
               must write something like -t sch.tab to select a table in a particular schema, rather than the
               old locution of -n sch -t tab.

       -T pattern
       --exclude-table=pattern
           Do not dump any tables matching pattern. The pattern is interpreted according to the same rules as
           for -t.  -T can be given more than once to exclude tables matching any of several patterns.

           When both -t and -T are given, the behavior is to dump just the tables that match at least one -t
           switch but no -T switches. If -T appears without -t, then tables matching -T are excluded from what
           is otherwise a normal dump.

       -v
       --verbose
           Specifies verbose mode. This will cause pg_dump to output detailed object comments and start/stop
           times to the dump file, and progress messages to standard error.

       -V
       --version
           Print the pg_dump version and exit.

       -x
       --no-privileges
       --no-acl
           Prevent dumping of access privileges (grant/revoke commands).

       -Z 0..9
       --compress=0..9
           Specify the compression level to use. Zero means no compression. For the custom and directory archive
           formats, this specifies compression of individual table-data segments, and the default is to compress
           at a moderate level. For plain text output, setting a nonzero compression level causes the entire
           output file to be compressed, as though it had been fed through gzip; but the default is not to
           compress. The tar archive format currently does not support compression at all.

       --binary-upgrade
           This option is for use by in-place upgrade utilities. Its use for other purposes is not recommended
           or supported. The behavior of the option may change in future releases without notice.

       --column-inserts
       --attribute-inserts
           Dump data as INSERT commands with explicit column names (INSERT INTO table (column, ...) VALUES ...).
           This will make restoration very slow; it is mainly useful for making dumps that can be loaded into
           non-PostgreSQL databases. Any error during restoring will cause only rows that are part of the
           problematic INSERT to be lost, rather than the entire table contents.

       --disable-dollar-quoting
           This option disables the use of dollar quoting for function bodies, and forces them to be quoted
           using SQL standard string syntax.

       --disable-triggers
           This option is relevant only when creating a data-only dump. It instructs pg_dump to include commands
           to temporarily disable triggers on the target tables while the data is restored. Use this if you have
           referential integrity checks or other triggers on the tables that you do not want to invoke during
           data restore.

           Presently, the commands emitted for --disable-triggers must be done as superuser. So, you should also
           specify a superuser name with -S, or preferably be careful to start the resulting script as a
           superuser.

           This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you
           can specify the option when you call pg_restore.

       --enable-row-security
           This option is relevant only when dumping the contents of a table which has row security. By default,
           pg_dump will set row_security to off, to ensure that all data is dumped from the table. If the user
           does not have sufficient privileges to bypass row security, then an error is thrown. This parameter
           instructs pg_dump to set row_security to on instead, allowing the user to dump the parts of the
           contents of the table that they have access to.

           Note that if you use this option currently, you probably also want the dump be in INSERT format, as
           the COPY FROM during restore does not support row security.

       --exclude-table-data=pattern
           Do not dump data for any tables matching pattern. The pattern is interpreted according to the same
           rules as for -t.  --exclude-table-data can be given more than once to exclude tables matching any of
           several patterns. This option is useful when you need the definition of a particular table even
           though you do not need the data in it.

           To exclude data for all tables in the database, see --schema-only.

       --extra-float-digits=ndigits
           Use the specified value of extra_float_digits when dumping floating-point data, instead of the
           maximum available precision. Routine dumps made for backup purposes should not use this option.

       --if-exists
           Use DROP ... IF EXISTS commands to drop objects in --clean mode. This suppresses “does not exist”
           errors that might otherwise be reported. This option is not valid unless --clean is also specified.

       --inserts
           Dump data as INSERT commands (rather than COPY). This will make restoration very slow; it is mainly
           useful for making dumps that can be loaded into non-PostgreSQL databases. Any error during restoring
           will cause only rows that are part of the problematic INSERT to be lost, rather than the entire table
           contents. Note that the restore might fail altogether if you have rearranged column order. The
           --column-inserts option is safe against column order changes, though even slower.

       --load-via-partition-root
           When dumping data for a table partition, make the COPY or INSERT statements target the root of the
           partitioning hierarchy that contains it, rather than the partition itself. This causes the
           appropriate partition to be re-determined for each row when the data is loaded. This may be useful
           when restoring data on a server where rows do not always fall into the same partitions as they did on
           the original server. That could happen, for example, if the partitioning column is of type text and
           the two systems have different definitions of the collation used to sort the partitioning column.

       --lock-wait-timeout=timeout
           Do not wait forever to acquire shared table locks at the beginning of the dump. Instead fail if
           unable to lock a table within the specified timeout. The timeout may be specified in any of the
           formats accepted by SET statement_timeout. (Allowed formats vary depending on the server version you
           are dumping from, but an integer number of milliseconds is accepted by all versions.)

       --no-comments
           Do not dump comments.

       --no-publications
           Do not dump publications.

       --no-security-labels
           Do not dump security labels.

       --no-subscriptions
           Do not dump subscriptions.

       --no-sync
           By default, pg_dump will wait for all files to be written safely to disk. This option causes pg_dump
           to return without waiting, which is faster, but means that a subsequent operating system crash can
           leave the dump corrupt. Generally, this option is useful for testing but should not be used when
           dumping data from production installation.

       --no-synchronized-snapshots
           This option allows running pg_dump -j against a pre-9.2 server, see the documentation of the -j
           parameter for more details.

       --no-tablespaces
           Do not output commands to select tablespaces. With this option, all objects will be created in
           whichever tablespace is the default during restore.

           This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you
           can specify the option when you call pg_restore.

       --no-unlogged-table-data
           Do not dump the contents of unlogged tables. This option has no effect on whether or not the table
           definitions (schema) are dumped; it only suppresses dumping the table data. Data in unlogged tables
           is always excluded when dumping from a standby server.

       --on-conflict-do-nothing
           Add ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING to INSERT commands. This option is not valid unless --inserts,
           --column-inserts or --rows-per-insert is also specified.

       --quote-all-identifiers
           Force quoting of all identifiers. This option is recommended when dumping a database from a server
           whose PostgreSQL major version is different from pg_dump's, or when the output is intended to be
           loaded into a server of a different major version. By default, pg_dump quotes only identifiers that
           are reserved words in its own major version. This sometimes results in compatibility issues when
           dealing with servers of other versions that may have slightly different sets of reserved words. Using
           --quote-all-identifiers prevents such issues, at the price of a harder-to-read dump script.

       --rows-per-insert=nrows
           Dump data as INSERT commands (rather than COPY). Controls the maximum number of rows per INSERT
           command. The value specified must be a number greater than zero. Any error during restoring will
           cause only rows that are part of the problematic INSERT to be lost, rather than the entire table
           contents.

       --section=sectionname
           Only dump the named section. The section name can be pre-data, data, or post-data. This option can be
           specified more than once to select multiple sections. The default is to dump all sections.

           The data section contains actual table data, large-object contents, and sequence values. Post-data
           items include definitions of indexes, triggers, rules, and constraints other than validated check
           constraints. Pre-data items include all other data definition items.

       --serializable-deferrable
           Use a serializable transaction for the dump, to ensure that the snapshot used is consistent with
           later database states; but do this by waiting for a point in the transaction stream at which no
           anomalies can be present, so that there isn't a risk of the dump failing or causing other
           transactions to roll back with a serialization_failure. See Chapter 13 for more information about
           transaction isolation and concurrency control.

           This option is not beneficial for a dump which is intended only for disaster recovery. It could be
           useful for a dump used to load a copy of the database for reporting or other read-only load sharing
           while the original database continues to be updated. Without it the dump may reflect a state which is
           not consistent with any serial execution of the transactions eventually committed. For example, if
           batch processing techniques are used, a batch may show as closed in the dump without all of the items
           which are in the batch appearing.

           This option will make no difference if there are no read-write transactions active when pg_dump is
           started. If read-write transactions are active, the start of the dump may be delayed for an
           indeterminate length of time. Once running, performance with or without the switch is the same.

       --snapshot=snapshotname
           Use the specified synchronized snapshot when making a dump of the database (see Table 9.87 for more
           details).

           This option is useful when needing to synchronize the dump with a logical replication slot (see
           Chapter 48) or with a concurrent session.

           In the case of a parallel dump, the snapshot name defined by this option is used rather than taking a
           new snapshot.

       --strict-names
           Require that each schema (-n/--schema) and table (-t/--table) qualifier match at least one
           schema/table in the database to be dumped. Note that if none of the schema/table qualifiers find
           matches, pg_dump will generate an error even without --strict-names.

           This option has no effect on -N/--exclude-schema, -T/--exclude-table, or --exclude-table-data. An
           exclude pattern failing to match any objects is not considered an error.

       --use-set-session-authorization
           Output SQL-standard SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION commands instead of ALTER OWNER commands to determine
           object ownership. This makes the dump more standards-compatible, but depending on the history of the
           objects in the dump, might not restore properly. Also, a dump using SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION will
           certainly require superuser privileges to restore correctly, whereas ALTER OWNER requires lesser
           privileges.

       -?
       --help
           Show help about pg_dump command line arguments, and exit.

       The following command-line options control the database connection parameters.

       -d dbname
       --dbname=dbname
           Specifies the name of the database to connect to. This is equivalent to specifying dbname as the
           first non-option argument on the command line. The dbname can be a connection string. If so,
           connection string parameters will override any conflicting command line options.

       -h host
       --host=host
           Specifies the host name of the machine on which the server is running. If the value begins with a
           slash, it is used as the directory for the Unix domain socket. The default is taken from the PGHOST
           environment variable, if set, else a Unix domain socket connection is attempted.

       -p port
       --port=port
           Specifies the TCP port or local Unix domain socket file extension on which the server is listening
           for connections. Defaults to the PGPORT environment variable, if set, or a compiled-in default.

       -U username
       --username=username
           User name to connect as.

       -w
       --no-password
           Never issue a password prompt. If the server requires password authentication and a password is not
           available by other means such as a .pgpass file, the connection attempt will fail. This option can be
           useful in batch jobs and scripts where no user is present to enter a password.

       -W
       --password
           Force pg_dump to prompt for a password before connecting to a database.

           This option is never essential, since pg_dump will automatically prompt for a password if the server
           demands password authentication. However, pg_dump will waste a connection attempt finding out that
           the server wants a password. In some cases it is worth typing -W to avoid the extra connection
           attempt.

       --role=rolename
           Specifies a role name to be used to create the dump. This option causes pg_dump to issue a SET ROLE
           rolename command after connecting to the database. It is useful when the authenticated user
           (specified by -U) lacks privileges needed by pg_dump, but can switch to a role with the required
           rights. Some installations have a policy against logging in directly as a superuser, and use of this
           option allows dumps to be made without violating the policy.

ENVIRONMENT

       PGDATABASE
       PGHOST
       PGOPTIONS
       PGPORT
       PGUSER
           Default connection parameters.

       PG_COLOR
           Specifies whether to use color in diagnostic messages. Possible values are always, auto and never.

       This utility, like most other PostgreSQL utilities, also uses the environment variables supported by
       libpq (see Section 33.14).

DIAGNOSTICS

       pg_dump internally executes SELECT statements. If you have problems running pg_dump, make sure you are
       able to select information from the database using, for example, psql(1). Also, any default connection
       settings and environment variables used by the libpq front-end library will apply.

       The database activity of pg_dump is normally collected by the statistics collector. If this is
       undesirable, you can set parameter track_counts to false via PGOPTIONS or the ALTER USER command.

NOTES

       If your database cluster has any local additions to the template1 database, be careful to restore the
       output of pg_dump into a truly empty database; otherwise you are likely to get errors due to duplicate
       definitions of the added objects. To make an empty database without any local additions, copy from
       template0 not template1, for example:

           CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE template0;

       When a data-only dump is chosen and the option --disable-triggers is used, pg_dump emits commands to
       disable triggers on user tables before inserting the data, and then commands to re-enable them after the
       data has been inserted. If the restore is stopped in the middle, the system catalogs might be left in the
       wrong state.

       The dump file produced by pg_dump does not contain the statistics used by the optimizer to make query
       planning decisions. Therefore, it is wise to run ANALYZE after restoring from a dump file to ensure
       optimal performance; see Section 24.1.3 and Section 24.1.6 for more information.

       Because pg_dump is used to transfer data to newer versions of PostgreSQL, the output of pg_dump can be
       expected to load into PostgreSQL server versions newer than pg_dump's version.  pg_dump can also dump
       from PostgreSQL servers older than its own version. (Currently, servers back to version 8.0 are
       supported.) However, pg_dump cannot dump from PostgreSQL servers newer than its own major version; it
       will refuse to even try, rather than risk making an invalid dump. Also, it is not guaranteed that
       pg_dump's output can be loaded into a server of an older major version — not even if the dump was taken
       from a server of that version. Loading a dump file into an older server may require manual editing of the
       dump file to remove syntax not understood by the older server. Use of the --quote-all-identifiers option
       is recommended in cross-version cases, as it can prevent problems arising from varying reserved-word
       lists in different PostgreSQL versions.

       When dumping logical replication subscriptions, pg_dump will generate CREATE SUBSCRIPTION commands that
       use the connect = false option, so that restoring the subscription does not make remote connections for
       creating a replication slot or for initial table copy. That way, the dump can be restored without
       requiring network access to the remote servers. It is then up to the user to reactivate the subscriptions
       in a suitable way. If the involved hosts have changed, the connection information might have to be
       changed. It might also be appropriate to truncate the target tables before initiating a new full table
       copy.

EXAMPLES

       To dump a database called mydb into a SQL-script file:

           $ pg_dump mydb > db.sql

       To reload such a script into a (freshly created) database named newdb:

           $ psql -d newdb -f db.sql

       To dump a database into a custom-format archive file:

           $ pg_dump -Fc mydb > db.dump

       To dump a database into a directory-format archive:

           $ pg_dump -Fd mydb -f dumpdir

       To dump a database into a directory-format archive in parallel with 5 worker jobs:

           $ pg_dump -Fd mydb -j 5 -f dumpdir

       To reload an archive file into a (freshly created) database named newdb:

           $ pg_restore -d newdb db.dump

       To reload an archive file into the same database it was dumped from, discarding the current contents of
       that database:

           $ pg_restore -d postgres --clean --create db.dump

       To dump a single table named mytab:

           $ pg_dump -t mytab mydb > db.sql

       To dump all tables whose names start with emp in the detroit schema, except for the table named
       employee_log:

           $ pg_dump -t 'detroit.emp*' -T detroit.employee_log mydb > db.sql

       To dump all schemas whose names start with east or west and end in gsm, excluding any schemas whose names
       contain the word test:

           $ pg_dump -n 'east*gsm' -n 'west*gsm' -N '*test*' mydb > db.sql

       The same, using regular expression notation to consolidate the switches:

           $ pg_dump -n '(east|west)*gsm' -N '*test*' mydb > db.sql

       To dump all database objects except for tables whose names begin with ts_:

           $ pg_dump -T 'ts_*' mydb > db.sql

       To specify an upper-case or mixed-case name in -t and related switches, you need to double-quote the
       name; else it will be folded to lower case (see Patterns). But double quotes are special to the shell, so
       in turn they must be quoted. Thus, to dump a single table with a mixed-case name, you need something like

           $ pg_dump -t "\"MixedCaseName\"" mydb > mytab.sql

SEE ALSO

       pg_dumpall(1), pg_restore(1), psql(1)