Re: Patch: Add --no-comments to skip COMMENTs with pg_dump

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robins Tharakan <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch: Add --no-comments to skip COMMENTs with pg_dump
Date: 2017-07-18 06:38:25
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTTh8j--+=8LocS6TJpbvTyCRSKOp=XkXGiAjHZpa34cw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:45 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> The one I run into frequently is in a proprietary fork, RDS Postgres.
> It'll happily dump out COMMENT ON EXTENSION plpgsq IS ...
> which is great as far as it goes, but errors out when you try to
> reload it.
>
> While bending over backwards to support proprietary forks strikes me
> as a terrible idea, I'd like to enable pg_dump to produce and consume
> ToCs just as pg_restore does with its -l/-L options. This would
> provide the finest possible grain.

Let's add as well a similar switch to pg_dumpall that gets pushed down
to all the created pg_dump commands. If this patch gets integrated
as-is this is going to be asked. And tests would be welcome.
--
Michael

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