From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql@j-davis.com
Subject: Re: pg_dump --with-* options
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 10:39:56 -0500
Message-ID: <aEMLzPQtjRbj2R7X@nathan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7cc52488-f876-4ad3-affd-6e4b0ef0cb09@eisentraut.org>
References: <7cc52488-f876-4ad3-affd-6e4b0ef0cb09@eisentraut.org>
On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 09:14:32AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> We have
>
> -a, --data-only dump only the data, not the schema or statistics
> --no-data do not dump data
> --with-data dump the data # this one is new
>
> (and there is also --section=data), and then three analogous options for
> "schema" and "statistics".
>
> What is the purpose of the --with-data option? Dumping the data is the
> default. Is this to override an earlier --no-data option?
I believe the idea is that these will allow folks to be explicit about what
they want instead of needing to understand the defaults for every
component.
--
nathan
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