On 2025-07-27 Su 7:56 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 04:59:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes:
Before we throw the baby out with the bathwater, how about this
suggestion? pg_dumpall would continue to produce globals.dat, but it
wouldn't be processed by pg_restore, which would only restore the
individual databases. Or else we just don't produce globals.dat at all.
Then we could introduce a structured object that pg_restore could safely
use for release 19, and I think we'd still have something useful for
release 18.
I dunno ... that seems like a pretty weird behavior. People would
have to do a separate text-mode "pg_dumpall -g" and remember to
restore that too. Admittedly, this could be more convenient than
"pg_dumpall -g" plus separately pg_dump'ing each database, which is
what people have to do today if they want anything smarter than a flat
text dumpfile. But it still seems like a hack --- and it would not be
compatible with v19, where presumably "pg_dumpall | pg_restore"
*would* restore globals. I think that the prospect of changing
dump/restore scripts and then having to change them again in v19
isn't too appetizing.
+1
OK, got it. Will revert.
cheers
andrew
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