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

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 09:36:18AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> st 10. 6. 2020 v 0:30 odesílatel Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> napsal:
> > > +                                             /* ignore empty rows */
> > > +                                             if (*line != '\0')
> >
> > Maybe: if line=='\0': continue
> > We should also support comments.

Comment support is still missing but easily added :)

I tried this patch and it works for my purposes.

Also, your getline is dynamically re-allocating lines of arbitrary length.
Possibly that's not needed.  We'll typically read "+t schema.relname", which is
132 chars.  Maybe it's sufficient to do
char buf[1024];
fgets(buf);
if strchr(buf, '\n') == NULL: error();
ret = pstrdup(buf);

In any case, you could have getline return a char* and (rather than following
GNU) no need to take char**, int* parameters to conflate inputs and outputs.

I realized that --filter has an advantage over the previous implementation
(with multiple --exclude-* and --include-*) in that it's possible to use stdin
for includes *and* excludes.

By chance, I had the opportunity yesterday to re-use with rsync a regex that
I'd previously been using with pg_dump and grep.  What this patch calls
"--filter" in rsync is called "--filter-from".  rsync's --filter-from rejects
filters of length longer than max filename, so I had to split it up into
multiple lines instead of using regex alternation ("|").  This option is a
close parallel in pg_dump.

-- 
Justin