Re: proposal: possibility to read dumped table's name from file

> On 13 Jul 2020, at 13:02, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:

> I like JSON format. But why here? For this purpose the JSON is over engineered.

I respectfully disagree, JSON is a commonly used and known format in systems
administration and most importantly: we already have code to parse it in the
frontend.

> This input file has  no nested structure - it is just a stream of lines. 

Well, it has a set of object types which in turn have objects.  There is more
structure than meets the eye.

Also, the current patch allows arbitrary whitespace before object names, but no
whitespace before comments etc.  Using something where the rules of parsing are
known is rarely a bad thing.

> I don't think so introducing JSON here can be a good idea.

Quite possibly it isn't, but not discussing options seems like a worse idea so
I wanted to bring it up.

> It is a really different case than pg_dump manifest file - in this case, in this case pg_dump is consument. 

Right, as I said these are two different, while tangentially related, things.

cheers ./daniel