Re: pg_dump --with-* options

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-06-12T15:58:15Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 2025-06-12 at 09:52 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> If the idea is to remove all options for default behavior, we'd be
> removing
> --no-statistics, --with-data, and --with-schema at this point.

That's OK with me.

>   Maybe we
> could go a step further and even rip out --statistics-only (in favor
> of
> --no-schema --no-data --with-statistics).

I'd probably keep --statistics-only.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

Commits

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Simplify options in pg_dump and pg_restore.
- 6a46089e458f 19 (unreleased) landed
- a3e8dc143862 18.0 landed
pg_dump: reject combination of "only" and "with"
- 0ed92cf50cc4 19 (unreleased) landed
- 60121890f7f2 18.0 landed
Change pg_dump default for statistics export.
- 34eb2a80d5a3 18.0 cited