Re: pg_restore should accept multiple -t switches?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_restore should accept multiple -t switches?
Date: 2010-08-10 11:18:55
Message-ID: 20100810111855.GD29153@fetter.org
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 05:13:22PM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> pg_dump allows us to select multiple target tables by using
> multiple -t switches, but pg_restore does not. So, when
> restoring multiple tables, we have to run pg_restore more
> than once as follows. This is a pain to me.
>
> $ pg_restore -t tbl1 db.dump
> $ pg_restore -t tbl2 db.dump
>
> Is it worth allowing pg_restore to accept multiple -t
> switches as well as pg_dump?
>
> $ pg_restore -t tbl1 -t tbl2 db.dump
>
> Regards,

Yes. :)

What other functionality in pg_dump does pg_restore not duplicate?

Cheers,
David.
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