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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: per feedback I received directly, pg_dump manpage patch
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 22:31:01 -0300
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> The man page does not clearly state that pg_dump will not dump things like
> users or roles. It does mention briefly in the notes section that pg_dumpall
> is needed for items that are set via SET but that isn't very clear on the
> other items.

I agree that we need a warning about this, but I think it should be a
bit more generic rather than focused exclusively on pg_dumpall; perhaps
something like "global objs such as roles/tblspcs should be backed up
separately, for example using pg_dumpall".

I didn't check the location of the warning in your patch, or whether a
warning is really appropriate rather than, say, <note> or a plain
<para>.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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