Re: pg_dumpall --roles-only interact with other options

From: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt(dot)parragi(at)percona(dot)com>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, wangpeng <215722532(at)qq(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall --roles-only interact with other options
Date: 2026-03-03 07:40:22
Message-ID: CAN4CZFNd5KRy5=iNtjRPDWU5WnEJxpkCUXnY0exU-LOJJimyEw@mail.gmail.com
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This is definitely better. I suggested an array based approach back in
my first email to the thread, and that didn't get any positive
feedback, so I thought people prefer the simple ifs.

- pg_log_error_hint("Try \"%s --help\" for more information.", progname);

This error hint comment is now missing, was that intentional?

+ CheckMutuallyExclusiveOpts(12, globals_only, "-g/--globals-only",
+ roles_only, "-r/--roles-only",
+ tablespaces_only, "-t/--tablespaces-only",
+ data_only, "-a/--data-only",
+ schema_only, "-s/--schema-only",
+ statistics_only, "--statistics-only");
+ CheckMutuallyExclusiveOpts(12,
+ globals_only, "-g/--globals-only",
+ roles_only, "-r/--roles-only",
+ tablespaces_only, "-t/--tablespaces-only",
+ schema_only, "-s/--schema-only",
+ data_only, "-a/--data-only",
+ with_statistics, "--statistics");

This was confusing it at first. data_only schema_only are present on
both but in different order, the only real difference is
with_statistics/statistics_only. I would fix the order and add a
comment that only the last item differs.

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