Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?
Date: 2003-11-22 11:25:26
Message-ID: 3FBF47A6.5000404@pse-consulting.de
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>
>
> There are two levels (sort of) of dependency. The first is that whole
> classes of objects can be dependent on whole other classes. eg.
> databases depend on users, or ALL FK's can be dumped after ALL tables,
> etc.. It would make the dump more readable if you dumped those
> definite dependencies in that order, rather than shuffling everything up.
>
I agree that dumping should be done class-wise (Tables, Functions,
Views) whenever possible, but I don't agree on FKs dumped separately
from the table. IMHO indexes and constraints belong to the table, and
modifying the dump will be hard if a table's code is scattered all around.

Regards,
Andreas

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