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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: per feedback I received directly, pg_dump manpage patch
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 18:37:13 -0700
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On 05/27/2015 06:31 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> 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".

As the only way to back up global objects is 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>.

The warning is directly after the first paragraph. I thought about using 
<note> but I think this does warrant a <warning>. You can't actually 
restore a database correctly without pg_dump + pg_dumpall (in this context).

JD



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