Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Also, what do you think about adding the ability to dump pg_filenode.map
> files?  Do you think it belongs in pg_filedump, or should we look at
> doing that elsewhere?

Not sure.  It does already contain the ability to dump pg_control, but
that seems like rather a wart (not to mention redundant with
pg_controldata) because you have to explicitly say -c to get it to
realize that's what you want.  Map files would have to be another
special switch I think.

> (Hmm, I just realized we might also conceivably
> want to dump VM and FSM forks, too)

Yeah, that's been on the to-do list for awhile.  There's not a way that
pg_filedump could automatically recognize such files, is there?

			regards, tom lane

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