Re: reload-through-the-top-parent switch the partition table

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 11:47 PM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> >> --restore-via-partition-root ?
>>
>> > I worry someone will think that pg_dump is now restoring stuff, but it
>> > isn't.
>>
>> Well, the point is that the commands it emits will cause the eventual
>> restore to go through the root.  Anyway, I think trying to avoid using
>> a verb altogether is going to result in a very stilted option name.
>>
>> I notice that the option list already includes some references to
>> "insert", so maybe "--insert-via-partition-root"?  Although you could
>> argue that that's confusing when we're using COPY.
>
>
> --use-partitioned-table [partition-name, ...]  # if names are omitted it
> defaults to all partitioned tables

I like this idea since it allows using this feature for selected
tables e.g. hash tables. Otherwise, users will be forced to use this
option even when there is only  a single hash partitioned table and
many other list/range partitioned tables.

What we are trying to do here is dump the data in a partitioned table
as if it's not partitioned. Combine that with --data-only dumps, and
one could use it to load partitioned data into unpartitioned or
differently partitioned table. So, how about naming the option as

--unpartition-partitioned-table [partitioned-table-name, ....] # if
names are omitted it defaults to all the partitioned tables.

That really says what dump is really doing without focusing on how the
data will be used like restoring/inserting/copying etc.

-- 
Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Postgres Database Company