Re: a bug in pg_dump?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:25:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > but when i do a: pg_dump -C uescc > uescc.sql
> > it add the create statement for the database but not
> > add appropiates alter database for the parameters i
> > set search_path in this case.
>
> > But, pg_dumpall does.
>
> > a bug in pg_dump?
>
> No. That functionality is assigned to pg_dumpall.

There doesn't seem to be a way of extracting only database creation from
pg_dumpall. Or the schema of a single database, for example. There
_is_ a functionality gap here.

ISTM pg_dump -C (which dumps CREATE DATABASE) should dump ALTER DATABASE
commands too.

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