On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Jeremy Finzel <finz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not simply use \copy (select * from largetable where created_at >=
>> '2018-05-01') to stdout? That is what I’ve always done when I need
>> something like this and have not found it particularly bothersome but
>> rather quite powerful. And here you have tons of flexibility because you
>> can do joins and whatever else.
>>
>
Just skimming the thread but I'd have to say being able to leverage
pg_dump's dependency resolution is a major reason for adding features to it
instead sticking to writing psql scripts.  This feature in a multi-tenant
situation is something with, I suspect, reasonably wide appeal.

David J.

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