Re: Allow dumping of roles or tablespaces

Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> pg_dumpall -g -- Dump roles and tablespaces per current behaviour
>> pg_dumpall -gr -- Dump roles only (or users and groups)
>> pg_dumpall -gt -- Dump tablespaces only
>
> This seems a bit ugly, mainly because (1) it doesn't have a natural
> translation to long-form switches, and (2) it screws up the usual
> habit of merging multiple single-letter switches into one argument.
> Perhaps something like
>
> --roles-only
> --tablespaces-only
> --globals-only
>
> Not sure if there are free single-letter codes for the first two,
> but on the whole I'm more interested in having sane long-form names
> than sane short ones ...

Revised patch attached - it now has

-r --roles-only
-t --tablespaces-only
-g --globals-only

Regards, Dave.