Re: rfc: add pg_dump options to dump output

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, James William Pye <pgsql(at)jwp(dot)name>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: rfc: add pg_dump options to dump output
Date: 2008-07-16 01:20:59
Message-ID: 200807160120.m6G1KxB01061@momjian.us
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Is this a TODO item?

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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Well, the stuff included into the dump by pg_dump -v is informative,
> > too. But we stopped doing that by default because of complaints.
> > I remain unconvinced that this proposal won't suffer the same fate.
>
> I think it would be reasonable to only include the list of options used in
> the dump if you use one that changes what appears in the dump. That way,
> you wouldn't see anything by default. But if you make a modification that
> will likely break a diff with an existing dump done with the default
> parameters, the option change that introduced that should show at the very
> beginning.
>
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