Re: pg_dump: add option to ignore TABLE DATA for failed TABLE object creation

You should submit to -patches; at least that it should either get
into the queue or you should get a reason why it didn't.

On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> some time ago I started a discussion [1] here about modifying pg_dump
> to not restore TABLE DATA objects if the corresponding TABLE oject
> failed to be created (usually because it already exists, but it might
> fail due to a different error like a nonexisting data type). We need
> this to provide automatic major version upgrades for databases with
> extensions like PostGIS. Tom's reply [3] seemed to indicate that this
> was not entirely crackful, so I implemented his approach, and after
> some feedback I now have a fairly clean patch that works very well.
>
> The patch was scheduled for review and inclusion [4], and indeed the
> page had the patch for a while, but after some time it vanished.
>
> Can you please reconsider this? If there is still a problem with the
> patch, I'd like to work on it until it meets your standards.
>
> For your convenience I attach the current patch version; a test script
> [5] is also available (the ML kills shell script attachments, so I put
> it on a Debian server). It does not alter the default behaviour, it
> just adds a new option -X no-data-for-failed-tables. If you think this
> mode should be the default, I'm happy to change it that way.
>
> Thank you a lot!
>
> Martin
>
> [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00694.php
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/351571
> [3] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00716.php
> [4] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg01253.php
> [5] http://people.debian.org/~mpitt/test-pg_restore-existing.sh
>
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> <13-pg_restore-ignore-failing-tables.patch>

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