Re: [doc] clarify behaviour of pg_dump's -t/--table option with non-tables

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 2:59 PM Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Recently I ran into a case where someone was wondering why it was not
> possible to dump the contents of a view, even though the documentation [1]
> seems to imply this is possible.
>
> Currently it says:
>
> Dump only tables with names matching pattern. For this purpose, "table"
> includes views, materialized views, sequences, and foreign tables.
>
> The attached patch attempts to clarify that only definitions of those
> objects
> will be dumped, and also mentions that dumping foreign table data requires
> the
> --include-foreign-data option.
>
> I suggest backpatching any changes to Pg13 where the --include-foreign-data
> option was added.
>

LGTM and agreed on the backpatch. Pushed.

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