On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 21:58, Tom Lane wrote: > > o Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps. > > > > This is probably best done by combining pg_dump and pg_dumpall > > into a single binary. > > This is probably obsoleted by events, too. Now that we can dump blobs > in text mode, I see no reason that we ever need to do this. > pg_restore's only real reason to live is to support selective restore > (ie, pulling out just a few objects from an existing dump) and I do not > see that you need that for pg_dumpall dumps. >
Being able to restore just the database users without restoring all databases? (There are other ways that could be accomplished, like adding user information to pg_dump, but it's one scenario anyway) Actually the argument that you would have to do both a pg_dumpall of the cluster and a pg_dump of each database in order to obtain this functionality seems so user unfriendly it seems like something to persue on those grounds alone (imho). Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq