| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering? |
| Date: | 2003-11-22 11:25:26 |
| Message-ID: | 3FBF47A6.5000404@pse-consulting.de |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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>
> There are two levels (sort of) of dependency. The first is that whole
> classes of objects can be dependent on whole other classes. eg.
> databases depend on users, or ALL FK's can be dumped after ALL tables,
> etc.. It would make the dump more readable if you dumped those
> definite dependencies in that order, rather than shuffling everything up.
>
I agree that dumping should be done class-wise (Tables, Functions,
Views) whenever possible, but I don't agree on FKs dumped separately
from the table. IMHO indexes and constraints belong to the table, and
modifying the dump will be hard if a table's code is scattered all around.
Regards,
Andreas
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