Re: pg_dump --exclude-table-data

On 12/08/2011 11:13 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  wrote:
>>> I'm also a bit concerned about the relationship between this and the
>>> existing -s option.  It seems odd that you use --schema-only to get
>>> the behavior database-wide, and --exclude-table-data to get it for
>>> just one table.  Is there some way we can make that a bit more
>>> consistent?
>> It's consistent, and was designed to be, with the --exclude-table option.
>> I'm not sure what you want it to look like instead. But TBH I'm more
>> interested in getting the functionality than in how it's spelled.
> Ah, hmm.  Well, maybe it's fine the way that you have it.  But I'd be
> tempted to at least add a sentence to the sgml documentation for each
> option referring to the other, e.g. "To dump only schema for all
> tables in the database, see --schema-only." and "To exclude table data
> for only a subset of tables in the database, see
> --exclude-table-data.", or something along those lines.
>

Sure, no problem with that.

cheers

andrew