Re: [PATCHES] Patch for pg_dump: Multiple -t options and

And I forgot to add:

* Allow dumping/restoring of any number of specific objects and types

Chris

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> OK, everything for pg_dump TODO I can think of:
>
> pg_dump/pg_dumpall/pg_restore
>
> * Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
> * Add dumping of comments on index columns
> * Replace crude DELETE FROM way of dumping cleaning of users and groups
> with separate DROP commands
> * Add dumping and restoring of LOB comments
> * Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> * Add full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need
> '=(integer, integer)', instead of just '='.
> * Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps. This is probably best done by:
> * Combining pg_dump and pg_dumpall into a single binary
> * Export to other database (eg. Oracle, MySQL and DB2) formats
>
> I'm hopefully getting the first 4 in for 8.0 release... The full names
> in tags one should be done really as well at some point.
>
> Anyone got anything else?
>
> Chris
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>> Yes, shoot over that the section should contain.
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>
>>> Perhaps. I was also thinking that maybe it's time to combine
>>> pg_dumpall and pg_dump into a single utility. At the moment, I can't
>>> see how pg_dumpall can ever have a -Fc option, since it will be messy
>>> to interact with the pg_dump processes.
>>>
>>> I was thinking a pg_export utility that can output to a range of
>>> other databases SQL formats would also be a good idea. It would
>>> share about 90% of the pg_dump code, but I'm trying to think of how
>>> to avoid duplicating the code.
>>>
>>> How about we have a whole pg_dump/dumpall/restore/backup section in
>>> the TODO file?
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> TODO item?
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> I just got an autoreply from David stating he will be away until
>>>>>>> August
>>>>>>> 9 if we want this functionality we have to code it ourselves. If
>>>>>>> not it
>>>>>>> can wait until the next major release.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It can wait --- it was submitted after feature freeze anyway, and we
>>>>>> certainly have more than enough other things to do in the next
>>>>>> couple days.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a plan to allow pg_dump to dump any object in the next
>>>>> version - i suspect these two ideas will need reconciliation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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