From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Vaishnavi Prabakaran <vaishnaviprabakaran(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Refactor handling of database attributes between pg_dump and pg_dumpall |
Date: | 2018-01-18 21:34:31 |
Message-ID: | CA+TgmobXwkmjxZcwN9zdZHcrYrkJzGhRKaW3-tHB9kXJxgwq_g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> * As the patch stands, --set-db-properties is implicit when you specify
> -C, and in fact the patch goes to the trouble of throwing an error if you
> try to specify both switches. I'm inclined to think this might be a bad
> idea. What about saying that -C enables emitting CREATE DATABASE and
> reconnecting to that DB, and independently of that, --set-db-properties
> enables emitting the additional per-database properties? This seems
> simpler to understand, more flexible, and less of a change from the
> previous behavior of -C. On the other hand you could argue that people
> would always want --set-db-properties with -C and so we're merely
> promoting carpal tunnel (and errors of omission) if we do it like that.
I would vigorously agree with that latter argument. I think the
chances of errors of omission would be very high even if the carpal
tunnel dangers were ameliorated by giving --set-db-properties a short
option name.
> If so, maybe we could say "-C implies --set-db-properties by default, but
> if you really don't want that, you can say -C --no-set-db-properties".
That seems like a better idea.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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