pg_filedump improvements

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