Re: pg_dump ordering

At 11:44 AM 1/08/2003 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > What I'd like to see it do is grab the dependency data in pg_depend and
> > do a topological sort using that.
>
>At the end though, we'd need to dump stuff not caught be the topsort, for
>cases where pg_depend has been messed with.

I have made a start of this (months ago), but have not had a chance to get
back to it. I you are interested I can send my design plans etc. Or I could
try to get back to it, depending on how interested you are in doing the work.

In terms of the dependency data, I was planning to dump dependencies as
well (a trivial skeleton exists); the ordering should happen at
restore-time (except dump should store it in useful-order on the assumption
that it will not be possible to re-order at restore-time). This is
important since we need to allow requests like:

"restore table xyz and it's dependencies from a full dump"

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