Re: Can pg_dump make use of CURRENT/SESSION_USER

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
> <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > If we ever implement something like
> >> >
> >> > COMMENT ON CURRENT_DATABASE IS ...
> >> >
> >> > it will be useful, because you will be able to restore a dump into
> >> > another database and have the comment apply to the target database.
> >
> > I think it's simple to implement, but how about pg_dump... we need to
add
> > new option (like --use-current-database) or am I missing something ?
>
> I think we'd just change it to use the new syntax, full stop. I see
> no need for an option.
>

I'm returning on this...

What's the reasonable syntaxes?

COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE IS 'text';

or

COMMENT ON DATABASE { CURRENT_DATABASE | object_name } IS 'text';

> >> > (Also, I wonder about
> >> > ALTER USER foo IN DATABASE current_database ...
> >> > because that will let us dump per-database user options too.)
> >>
> >> +1 for both of those ideas.
> >
>

ALTER ROLE { role_specification | ALL } [ IN CURRENT DATABASE ] SET/RESET
...

or

ALTER ROLE { role_specification | ALL } [ IN { CURRENT DATABASE | DATABASE
database_name } ] SET/RESET ...

Regards,

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