Re: db partial dumping with pg_dump

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: db partial dumping with pg_dump
Date: 2002-08-13 19:42:23
Message-ID: 29054.1029267743@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Clearly, we should shoot for something that leverages the existing
> SELECT code rather than hang more clauses off of COPY.

Yeah, that's a good point. COPY IN is still a special case, I think,
but seems like COPY OUT could be reimplemented as a special tuple
destination for the regular executor machinery.

Q: how much performance hit would we be taking? If this slows down
pg_dump a lot, the extra code is worth keeping.

regards, tom lane

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