Re: pg_restore remap schema

From: Stéphane Tachoires <stephane(dot)tachoires(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Fabrice Chapuis <fabrice636861(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Marcos Pegoraro <marcos(at)f10(dot)com(dot)br>
Subject: Re: pg_restore remap schema
Date: 2022-11-16 14:58:29
Message-ID: CA+gpmfL4sHQXiGY2ngpA7aamj2L1tY=ifp=RAid-zCS+FXBH0w@mail.gmail.com
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Hi
And could it be at pg_dump level ?
It seems more aware of what is doing...

Stephane

Le mer. 16 nov. 2022 à 15:42, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> a écrit :

> Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> writes:
> > Le mer. 16 nov. 2022 à 13:08, Fabrice Chapuis <fabrice636861(at)gmail(dot)com>
> a
> > écrit :
> >> I worked on the pg_dump source code to add remap schema functionality to
> >> use it internally where I work. This is a first version that allows to
> >> remap tables, views and sequences (only to export schema). Is this
> >> development likely to interest the PG community and to continue this
> >> development further?
>
> > If it doesn't work on functions, that will be a big issue. And to be
> > honest, I don't think you can do it reliably on functions, especially
> with
> > dynamic queries in PL/pgsql.
>
> Yeah --- I fear there is no hope of making a feature like this that
> works reliably enough that we'd accept it. pg_restore is just not
> that smart about what is in the chunks of DDL that it processes,
> and trying to make it smart enough is a losing game.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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