Re: Suggested "easy" TODO: pg_dump --from-list

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> On 11/24/2010 07:29 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>  As a first attempt at syntax, I might suggest something along the
>> lines of "object type: object name", where the types and names might
>> look to COMMENT ON for inspiration.
>
> pg_dump already uses a list of object types (e.g. as seen in the output from
> pg_restore --list). Let's not invent something new if we don't need to. But
> we'll need more than that. We'll need enough for disambiguation, especially
> for functions which is your stated use case. So, something like this might
> work:
>
>    FUNCTION:myschema.myfunc:integer,text,timestamp with time zone

Actually, that's pretty much exactly what I was proposing, except that
I would've kept the existing convention for how to write a function's
arguments:

FUNCTION:myschema.myfunc(integer,text,timestamp with time zone)

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