Hi all, I was looking for a way to track actual schema changes after database migrations in a VCS. Preferably, the schema definition should come from a trusted source like pg_dump and should consist of small files. This patch was born out of that need.
This patch adds the structured output format to pg_dump. This format is a plaintext output split up into multiple files and the resulting small files are stored in a directory path based on the dumped object. This format can be restored by feeding its plaintext toc file (restore-dump.sql) to psql. The output is also suitable for manipulating the files with standard editing tools. This patch is a WIP (V1). The patch is against master and it compiles successfully on macOS 13.2.1 aarch64 and on Debian 11 arm64. To test, execute pg_dump --format=structured --file=/path/to/outputdir dbname What do you think of this feature, any chance it will be added to pg_dump once the patch is ready? Is the chosen name "structured" appropriate? Thanks for any feedback. -- Attila Soki
v1-wip-pg_dump_structured.patch
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