Re: pg_dump schema breakup

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>>>> I think what you may really be after is "the stuff that should be
>>>> loaded
>>>> before inserting data" and "the stuff that should be loaded after",
>>>> but
>>>> the above are poor names for these concepts.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But it certainly would be nice to be able to dump all that "stuff":-)
>> Yea, I've been told that this would not be a high demand feature. So
>> do I have a second vote? ;-)
>
> The ability to have a dump that automatically separated the
> before-data and after-data objects is definitely
> useful. The amount of times I have had to dump the schema and data
> separately just so I can modify the
> schema before restore, or disable some function that is causing
> problems can not even be counted.
>

We already have a highly selective and configurable restore mechanism,
using the -L feature of pg_restore. Maybe there's a good special case
for this particular split, but it is hardly undoable now.

As for Naz' needs - I gave him a perl script I whipped up in few minutes
to do the split he wanted - and I'm sure you could do the same in python ;-)

cheers

andrew