Re: [doc] clarify behaviour of pg_dump's -t/--table option with non-tables

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:45 PM Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> 2020年10月6日(火) 21:58 Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Recently I ran into a case where someone was wondering why it was not
> > possible to dump the contents of a view, even though the documentation
> [1]
> > seems to imply this is possible.
> >
> > Currently it says:
> >
> > Dump only tables with names matching pattern. For this purpose, "table"
> > includes views, materialized views, sequences, and foreign tables.
> >
> > The attached patch attempts to clarify that only definitions of those
> objects
> > will be dumped, and also mentions that dumping foreign table data
> requires the
> > --include-foreign-data option.
> >
> > I suggest backpatching any changes to Pg13 where the
> --include-foreign-data
> > option was added.
> >
> > [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html
>
> Better version attached.
>

Argh, perfect timing. I'll update with your new version :)

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