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

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Surafel Temesgen <surafel3000@gmail.com>, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-07-18T18:48:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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ne 17. 7. 2022 v 16:01 odesílatel Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
napsal:

> Thanks for updating the patch.
>
> This failed to build on windows.
> http://cfbot.cputube.org/pavel-stehule.html
>
>
Yes, there was a significant problem with the function exit_nicely, that is
differently implemented in pg_dump and pg_dumpall.



> Some more comments inline.
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 08:20:47AM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > The attached patch implements the --filter option for pg_dumpall and for
> > pg_restore too.
>
> > diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
> b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
> > index 5efb442b44..ba2920dbee 100644
> > --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
> > +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
> > @@ -779,6 +779,80 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
> >        </listitem>
> >       </varlistentry>
> >
> > +     <varlistentry>
> > +      <term><option>--filter=<replaceable
> class="parameter">filename</replaceable></option></term>
> > +      <listitem>
> > +       <para>
> > +        Specify a filename from which to read patterns for objects to
> include
> > +        or exclude from the dump. The patterns are interpreted
> according to the
> > +        same rules as the corresponding options:
> > +        <option>-t</option>/<option>--table</option> for tables,
> > +        <option>-n</option>/<option>--schema</option> for schemas,
> > +        <option>--include-foreign-data</option> for data on foreign
> servers and
> > +        <option>--exclude-table-data</option> for table data.
> > +        To read from <literal>STDIN</literal> use
> <filename>-</filename> as the

STDIN comma
>

fixed


>
> > +       <para>
> > +        Lines starting with <literal>#</literal> are considered
> comments and
> > +        are ignored. Comments can be placed after filter as well. Blank
> lines
>
> change "are ignored" to "ignored", I think.
>

changed


>
> > diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml
> b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml
> > index 8a081f0080..137491340c 100644
> > --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml
> > +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dumpall.sgml
> > @@ -122,6 +122,29 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
> >        </listitem>
> >       </varlistentry>
> >
> > +     <varlistentry>
> > +      <term><option>--filter=<replaceable
> class="parameter">filename</replaceable></option></term>
> > +      <listitem>
> > +       <para>
> > +        Specify a filename from which to read patterns for databases
> excluded
> > +        from dump. The patterns are interpretted according to the same
> rules
> > +        like <option>--exclude-database</option>.
>
> same rules *as*
>

fixed


>
> > +        To read from <literal>STDIN</literal> use
> <filename>-</filename> as the
>
> comma
>

fixed


>
> > +        filename.  The <option>--filter</option> option can be
> specified in
> > +        conjunction with the above listed options for including or
> excluding
>
> For dumpall, remove "for including or"
> change "above listed options" to "exclude-database" ?
>

fixed


>
> > diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml
> b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml
> > index 526986eadb..5f16c4a333 100644
> > --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml
> > +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml
> > @@ -188,6 +188,31 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
> >        </listitem>
> >       </varlistentry>
> >
> > +     <varlistentry>
> > +      <term><option>--filter=<replaceable
> class="parameter">filename</replaceable></option></term>
> > +      <listitem>
> > +       <para>
> > +        Specify a filename from which to read patterns for objects
> excluded
> > +        or included from restore. The patterns are interpretted
> according to the
> > +        same rules like <option>--schema</option>,
> <option>--exclude-schema</option>,
>
> s/like/as/
>

changed


>
> > +        <option>--function</option>, <option>--index</option>,
> <option>--table</option>
> > +        or <option>--trigger</option>.
> > +        To read from <literal>STDIN</literal> use
> <filename>-</filename> as the
>
> STDIN comma
>

fixed



>
> > +/*
> > + * filter_get_keyword - read the next filter keyword from buffer
> > + *
> > + * Search for keywords (limited to containing ascii alphabetic
> characters) in
>
> remove "containing"
>

fixed


>
> > +     /*
> > +      * If the object name pattern has been quoted we must take care
> parse out
> > +      * the entire quoted pattern, which may contain whitespace and can
> span
> > +      * over many lines.
>
> quoted comma
> *to parse
> remove "over"
>

fixed


>
> > + * The pattern is either simple without any  whitespace, or properly
> quoted
>
> double space
>

fixed


>
> > + * in case there is whitespace in the object name. The pattern handling
> follows
>
> s/is/may be/
>

fixed


>
> > +                     if (size == 7 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "include", 7) == 0)
> > +                             *is_include = true;
> > +                     else if (size == 7 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "exclude", 7) == 0)
> > +                             *is_include = false;
>
> Can't you write strncasecmp(keyword, "include", size) to avoid hardcoding
> "7" ?
>

I need to compare the size of the keyword with expected size, but I can use
strlen(conststr). I wrote new macro is_keyword_str to fix this issue

fixed


>
> > +
> > +                     if (size == 4 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword, "data",
> 4) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_DATA;
> > +                     else if (size == 8 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "database", 8) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_DATABASE;
> > +                     else if (size == 12 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "foreign_data", 12) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_FOREIGN_DATA;
> > +                     else if (size == 8 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "function", 8) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_FUNCTION;
> > +                     else if (size == 5 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "index", 5) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_INDEX;
> > +                     else if (size == 6 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "schema", 6) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_SCHEMA;
> > +                     else if (size == 5 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "table", 5) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_TABLE;
> > +                     else if (size == 7 && pg_strncasecmp(keyword,
> "trigger", 7) == 0)
> > +                             *objtype = FILTER_OBJECT_TYPE_TRIGGER;
>
> Avoid hardcoding these constants.
>

fixed


>
> > diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/filter.h b/src/bin/pg_dump/filter.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..e4a1a74b10
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/filter.h
> ...
> > \ No newline at end of file
>

fixed

updated patch attached

Regards

Pavel


>
> :(
>

Commits

Same data as JSON: GET /api/v1/messages/:b64id/commits the thread's linked commits as JSON, with link sources. API reference →
  1. Fix array subscript warnings

  2. Read include/exclude commands for dump/restore from file

  3. Allow records to span multiple lines in pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf.