Re: Can pg_dump make use of CURRENT/SESSION_USER

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(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 ?

> > (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?

Regards,

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