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Simplify options in pg_dump and pg_restore.

Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>

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Commit: a3e8dc14386221e2db0fe92589327c5b2dea22af
Author: Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-08-02T14:51:35Z
Releases: 18.0 
Simplify options in pg_dump and pg_restore.

Remove redundant options --with-data and --with-schema, and rename
--with-statistics to just --statistics.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f379d0aeefe8effe13302a436bc28f549f09e924.camel@j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 18

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doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml modified +10 −28
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml modified +10 −28
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml modified +10 −30
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c modified +3 −13
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c modified +11 −32
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c modified +11 −24
src/bin/pg_dump/t/002_pg_dump.pl modified +62 −62
src/bin/pg_upgrade/dump.c modified +1 −1

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