Re: Option to dump foreign data in pg_dump

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 2:10 PM Luis Carril <luis(dot)carril(at)swarm64(dot)com> wrote:
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> Luis,
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> It seems you've got enough support for this concept, so let's move
> forward with this patch. There are some comments from Tom about the
> patch; would you like to send an updated version perhaps?
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> Thanks
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> Hi,
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> I've attached a new version (v6) removing the superfluous JOIN that Tom identified, and not collecting the oids (avoiding the query) if the option is not used at all.
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> About the testing issues that Tom mentioned:
> I do not see how can we have a pure SQL dummy FDW that tests the functionality. Because the only way to identify if the data of a foreign table for the chosen server is dumped is if the COPY statement appears in the output, but if the C callbacks of the FDW are not implemented, then the SELECT that dumps the data to generate the COPY cannot be executed.
> Also, to test that the include option chooses only the data of the specified foreign servers we would need some negative testing, i.e. that the COPY statement for the non-desired table does not appear. But I do not find these kind of tests in the test suite, even for other selective options like --table or --exclude-schema.
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Can you have a look at dump with parallel option. Parallel option will
take a lock on table while invoking lockTableForWorker. May be this is
not required for foreign tables.
Thoughts?

Regards,
Vignesh
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