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Re: pg_dump --with-* options

Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>

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From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
To: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-13T01:36:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
wrote:
(peacefully skimming thread...)
...

> If we're hot to remove options, how about we remove the sections flags?
> Their utility is reliant upon the user understanding exactly which things
> go in which section, and further assumes that everything deterministically
> goes in exactly one section, which is no longer the case as Jeff
> pointed out recently. They have outlived their usefulness.


[record scratch sound]
Wait, what?! Big -1. Guess we can debate this more for v19.

For this current discussion (--statistics-only), I'm a +1 for keeping
things as they are now, in the name of intuitiveness.

Cheers,
Greg

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Commits

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

  1. Simplify options in pg_dump and pg_restore.

  2. pg_dump: reject combination of "only" and "with"

  3. Change pg_dump default for statistics export.