Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> True enough, but I'd think you could make a good argument that dumping a 
> database should dump any ALTER commands that are attached to it.

Let's suppose pg_dump did that, so "pg_dump foo >foo.dump" includes
commands like

        ALTER DATABASE foo SET ...

Now what happens when you try to load the script in database bar?
Nothing very good ...

                        regards, tom lane

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