Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1

From: Mark Hollomon <mhh(at)mindspring(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1
Date: 2000-11-10 03:24:10
Message-ID: 00110922241000.00334@jupiter
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On Wednesday 08 November 2000 10:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> > At 14:04 7/11/00 -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >> FWIW, what about having another "template0" database, where
> >> nobody can add user data. Initially, template0 and template1
> >> are identically. CREATE DATABASE get's a new switch (used by
> >> the pg_dump output) that tells to create it from the vanilla
> >> template0 DB (generalized, so someone can setup a couple of
> >> template<n>'s) and all objects inherited from template1
> >> (those not in template0) are regularly dumped per database.
>
> I like that a lot. Solves the whole problem at a stroke, and even
> adds some extra functionality (alternate templates).
>

How does this solve the 'ALTER FUNCTION' problem?

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Mark Hollomon

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