Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:36:02 -0500
From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: pg_dump --with-* options
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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 06:14:55PM -0400, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> IIUC the current proposal is to:
>>
>> * Dump/restore stats by default.
>> * Keep the --no-statistics, --no-schema, and --no-data options.
>> * Keep the --statistics-only, --schema-only, and --data-only options.
>> * Remove the --with-statistics, --with-schema, and --with-data options.
> 
> This is so close to ideal. It's just that the first bullet should be "off
> by default" :)

If we did that, the only way to dump statistics would be --statistics-only,
right?  You wouldn't be able to include statistics along with other
things.

-- 
nathan