On Wed Feb 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM -03, David G. Johnston wrote:
>> I also want to mention that I don't think that we would be able to
>> properly re-created 100% all objects from the source schema into the new
>> schema. Some objects will be hard to copy and can still generate bougy
>> objects like functions for example as David mention on [1] (we can
>> support some kind of functions but some others will be hard).
>>
>> Another issue is to handle complex relations like the following:
>>     - Function A returns a boolean type
>>     - Custom DOMAIN type call function A on CHECK constraint
>>     - Function B return/use a type of custom DOMAIN
>>
>> What we should create first? It can have functions that depends on
>> domains, so domains should be created first, but it can also have
>> domains that depends on functions, so functions would need to be created
>> first. This would be trick to fix.
>>
>
> This is a solved problem in pg_dump, no?  It understands and follows the
> dependency graph.  Even allows schema-only dumps.
>

Yes, I think so. I was actually planning to look at pg_dump code to see
what we can reuse to re-create the objects from source schema into the
new schema. 

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Matheus Alcantara
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