Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I think what you may really be after is "the stuff that should be
loaded
before inserting data" and "the stuff that should be loaded after",
but
the above are poor names for these concepts.
But it certainly would be nice to be able to dump all that "stuff":-)
Yea, I've been told that this would not be a high demand feature. So
do I have a second vote? ;-)
The ability to have a dump that automatically separated the
before-data and after-data objects is definitely
useful. The amount of times I have had to dump the schema and data
separately just so I can modify the
schema before restore, or disable some function that is causing
problems can not even be counted.
We already have a highly selective and configurable restore mechanism,
using the -L feature of pg_restore. Maybe there's a good special case
for this particular split, but it is hardly undoable now.
As for Naz' needs - I gave him a perl script I whipped up in few minutes
to do the split he wanted - and I'm sure you could do the same in python ;-)
Maybe what we need is a program to process the object list from
pg_restore -L. Or a mode in pg_restore, "from this dump give me all
the sutff to be loaded before inserting data", and the reverse.
I mean, should the problem be attacked while dumping, or while
restoring?
Well, the other issue is how many canned breakup schemes we are going to
support. If this particular one is of sufficiently general usefulness
then I have no objection. But when you can produce it trivially from the
output of "pg_dump -s", the need to hardcode it hardly seems pressing.
cheers
andrew
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