On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 08:11, Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 02:30, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Le mer. 8 janv. 2025 à 17:41, Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com> a écrit :
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> >> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 20:07, Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 at 00:34, Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 at 23:05, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 02:05:13AM +0530, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:
> >> > > > > Here, I am attaching an updated patch. I fixed some bugs of v01 patch and
> >> > > > > did some code cleanup also.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Thank you for picking this up!  I started to review it, but the
> >> > > > documentation changes didn't build, and a few tests in check-world are
> >> > > > failing.  Would you mind resolving those issues?  Also, if you haven't
> >> > > > already, please add an entry to the next commitfest [0] to ensure that 1)
> >> > > > this feature is tracked and 2) the automated tests will run.
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks Nathan for the quick response.
> >> > >
> >> > > I fixed bugs of documentation changes and check-world in the latest patch. Now docs are building and check-world is passing.
> >> > >
> >> > > I added entry into commitfest for this patch.[0]
> >> > >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > +       if (dbfile)
> >> > > > +       {
> >> > > > +               printfPQExpBuffer(&cmd, "\"%s\" %s %s", pg_dump_bin,
> >> > > > +                                                 dbfile, create_opts);
> >> > > > +               appendPQExpBufferStr(&cmd, " -F d ");
> >> > > > +       }
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Have you given any thought to allowing a directory of custom format files,
> >> > > > as discussed upthread [1]?  Perhaps that is better handled as a follow-up
> >> > > > patch, but it'd be good to understand the plan, anyway.
> >> > >
> >> > > I will make these changes and will test. I will update my findings after doing some testing.
> >> >
> >> > In the latest patch, I added dump and restoring for directory/custom/tar/plain formats. Please consider this patch for review and testing.
> >> >
> >> > Design:
> >> > When we give --format=d|c|t then we are dumping all global sql commands in global.dat in plain sql format and we are making a map.dat file with dbname and dboid. For each database, we are making separate subdirectory with dboid under databases directory and dumping as per archive format(d|c|t).
> >> > While restoring, first we are restoring all global sql commands from global.dat and then we are restoring one by one all databases.  As we are supporting --exclude-database with pg_dumpall, the same we are supporting with pg_restore also to skip restoring on some specified database patterns.
> >> > If we want to restore a single database, then we can specided particular subdirectory from the databases folder. To get file name, we refer dbname into map.file.
> >> >
> >> > TODO: Now I will work on test cases for these new added options to the pg_dumpall and pg_restore.
> >> >
> >> > Here, I am attaching the v04 patch for testing and review.
> >>
> >> Sorry. My mistake.
> >> v04 was the delta patch on the top of v03.
> >>
> >> Here, I am attaching the v05 patch for testing and review.
> >>
> >
> > Just FWIW, I did a quick test tonight. It applies cleanly, compiles OK. I did a dump:
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> Thanks for testing and review.
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> >
> > $ pg_dumpall -Fd -f dir
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> > and then a restore (after dropping the databases I had):
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> > $ pg_restore -Cd postgres -v dir
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> > It worked really well. That's great.
> >
> > Quick thing to fix: you've got this error message:
> > pg_restore: error:  -d/--dbanme should be given when using archive dump of pg_dumpall
> >
> > I guess it is --dbname, rather than --dbanme.
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> Fixed.
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> >
> > Of course, it needs much more testing, but this feature would be great to have. Thanks for working on this!
> >
> >
>
> Apart from above typo, I fixed some review comments those I received
> from Andrew in offline discussion. Thanks Andrew for the quick review.
>
> Here, I am attaching an updated patch for review and testing.
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Hi all,