Re: pg_dump exclusion switches and functions/types

Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-10-09T08:33:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> We are two months past feature freeze ... adding entirely new features
> to pg_dump is *not* on the table for 8.2. 

Ok, clear.

> > The scenario I most care about is to be able to make a complete data
> > base dump (including non-schema objects) while excluding only a few
> > tables.
> 
> Isn't this the same as Kris' complaint?  Why do you need additional
> dependency analysis to do the above?

Well, I obviously didn't understand well the complete feature as it is
implemented. Now, is what I want (see above) possible with the new
feature, or if I exclude some tables I implicitly loose some other
things too from the dump which normally would be there ? This is my only
concern...

Cheers,
Csaba.