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Re: pg_restore --no-post-data and --post-data-only

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Date: 2011-12-09T03:30:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 12/8/11 9:18 PM, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> If you ask pg_restore to restore a section out of an archive which
> doesn't have this section, there is no error and the command just
> succeeds. This is what I expected and I think it's the right thing to
> do but maybe others think that
> there should be a warning.

Andrew and I discussed this previously.  It's consistent with how we
treat other options in pg_restore.  It may be that we should be
consistently treating all options differently, but I don't think that's
specific to this patch.

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Josh Berkus
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