Re: pg_dump in 7.4

At 08:52 AM 13/11/2002 -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
>The biggest trick will be trying to re-combine the ALTER ... ADD
>CONSTRAINT and ALTER ... SET DEFAULT statements back into CREATE TABLE

I'm not sure this would be worth the effort - I'll grant it would be cute,
but getting pg_dump to understand SQL seems a little ambitious. We'd
probably end up defining a portable schema definition language just for
dump files.

To achieve Tom's suggestion it might be simpler to store two versions - the
'full' version, and the 'fully deconstructed' version. If our analysis of
the dependencies meant we needed to break up an object, then we use the
latter.

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