Re: Patch for pg_dump

On 3/21/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > I guess this matches this TODO item:
> > o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
> > tables
> (...)
> Code-wise, the patch seems a bit of a mess too --- it will certainly not
> scale up to dumping some functions and some other things, as one would
> expect for instance if one said "pg_dump -Q myfunc -t mytab ...". It
> doesn't even look like it will handle multiple -Q switches. I think a
> minimum expectation is that -Q would work like -t now does.

Well it was my first patch :-) So I suggest to use a generic argument like
--object=function, which could be extended later to object=type, table,
sequence, trigger... But now I have another problem: how to specify a name ?

regards,

D.

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