Re: pg_dump --with-* options

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-06-12 at 09:52 -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> > If the idea is to remove all options for default behavior, we'd be
> > removing
> > --no-statistics, --with-data, and --with-schema at this point.
>
> That's OK with me.

Same.

> > Maybe we
> > could go a step further and even rip out --statistics-only (in favor
> > of
> > --no-schema --no-data --with-statistics).
>
> I'd probably keep --statistics-only.

I'm going to vote for removing it. pg_dump has a lot of options, and
it doesn't seem like a good bet to me to have options that are
equivalent to various combinations of other options. I don't see any
particular reason to believe that --statistics-only is even a
particularly likely combination of options for someone to want. I'd
rather keep it simple.

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