Re: Can pg_dump make use of CURRENT/SESSION_USER

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fabrízio Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can pg_dump make use of CURRENT/SESSION_USER
Date: 2015-03-18 17:24:31
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZHVj19GTXDCTaLCJhHe_T-cR_u-emZ2EoA=LaTPh3F9Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
<fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > If we ever implement something like
>> >
>> > COMMENT ON CURRENT_DATABASE IS ...
>> >
>> > it will be useful, because you will be able to restore a dump into
>> > another database and have the comment apply to the target database.
>
> I think it's simple to implement, but how about pg_dump... we need to add
> new option (like --use-current-database) or am I missing something ?

I think we'd just change it to use the new syntax, full stop. I see
no need for an option.

>> > (Also, I wonder about
>> > ALTER USER foo IN DATABASE current_database ...
>> > because that will let us dump per-database user options too.)
>>
>> +1 for both of those ideas.
>
> Can you explain more about this idea?

Uh, what do you want explained?

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Robert Haas
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