Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Davy Durham <pubaddr5(at)davyandbeth(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression
Date: 2008-06-02 00:53:22
Message-ID: 20080602005322.GG31154@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Davy Durham (pubaddr5(at)davyandbeth(dot)com) wrote:
> The code is not all that much to maintain as it is, and making it an
> addition to an existing parameter instead of a new one may not increase
> the code size by much more at all.

I'm generally in favor of 'creature-comfort' kind of additions, but I
have to agree with Tom on this one. I don't see much of a use case, and
it's trivial to create a shell-script to do what you're looking for with
psql and COPY statements.

Thanks,

Stephen

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