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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump --with-* options
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:28:14 -0700
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On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 13:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:


> What confuses me about what you've written here specifically is that
> pg_dump and pg_restore are different programs with different option
> sets. So when you say we need both --with-statistics and
> --no-statistics, I guess that's true, but we're not talking about the
> same executable in both cases. It seems to me that pg_restore should
> restore everything that was dumped, but that there should be (as
> there
> are) various --no-whatever switches to skip unwanted items. But
> pg_dump should have dump a reasonable set of things by default, and
> the user should be able to add to that or subtract from it.

True, we could have different options for pg_dump and pg_restore, but
to me that seems a little strange because so many of the other options
overlap. I figured that would be confusing, but maybe it's fine.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis






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