Re: BUG #7874: GUC's not in database dumps

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:37:04AM +0000, joe(at)tanga(dot)com wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 7874
> Logged by: Joe Van Dyk
> Email address: joe(at)tanga(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.2.1
> Operating system: OSX, Linux
> Description:
>
> If I run:
> alter database foo set my.name = 'joe';
>
> that GUC isn't available inside backups of that database.
>
> It does show up when doing "pg_dumpall -s".
>
> It does *not* show up when doing "pg_dumpall -g"
>

This is a TODO:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#ALTER

Refactor handling of database attributes between pg_dump and pg_dumpall

Currently only pg_dumpall emits database attributes, such as ALTER
DATABASE SET commands and database-level GRANTs. Many people wish that
pg_dump would do that. One proposal is to let pg_dump issue such
commands if the -C switch was used, but it's unclear whether that will
satisfy the demand.

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4864F001.50909@archonet.com
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/11646.1272814212@sss.pgh.pa.us

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