Re: Docs pg_restore: Shouldn't there be a note about -n ?

Florents Tselai <florents(dot)tselai(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Ah, swapped them by mistake on the previous email:
> They're both available in the pg_dump and note on -n missing in pg_restore.
> The question remains though:
> Shouldn’t there be a note about -n in pg_restore ?

Probably. I see that pg_dump has a third copy of the exact same
note for "-e". pg_restore lacks that switch for some reason,
but this is surely looking mighty duplicative. I propose getting
rid of the per-switch Notes and putting a para into the Notes
section, along the lines of

When -e, -n, or -t is specified, pg_dump makes no attempt to dump
any other database objects that the selected object(s) might
depend upon. Therefore, there is no guarantee that the results of
a selective dump can be successfully restored by themselves into a
clean database.

and mutatis mutandis for pg_restore.

regards, tom lane