| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump in 7.4 |
| Date: | 2002-11-13 13:36:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20910.1037194580@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> At 01:33 PM 13/11/2002 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> Does this sound like an idea?
> It does, but in keeping with allowing pg_restore to be quite flexible, I'd
> like to see the dependency data stored in the dump file, then processed at
> restore-time.
No, because that doesn't help for the plain-text-dump case. I think we
should solve the dependencies during pg_dump and output the objects in a
safe order. pg_restore can keep its options for rearranging the order,
but those should become vestigial, or at least only needed in bizarre
cases.
regards, tom lane
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