Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Davy Durham
Subject Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression
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Msg-id 1212368157.17810.90.camel@ubuntu
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In response to Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression
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On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 20:53 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Davy Durham (pubaddr5@davyandbeth.com) wrote:
> > The code is not all that much to maintain as it is, and making it an
> > addition to an existing parameter instead of a new one may not increase
> > the code size by much more at all.
>
> I'm generally in favor of 'creature-comfort' kind of additions, but I
> have to agree with Tom on this one.  I don't see much of a use case, and
> it's trivial to create a shell-script to do what you're looking for with
> psql and COPY statements.
>

To reiterate, it is not possible to use the COPY command to create
standard SQL INSERT statements that can be conveniently loaded by
another db. No?




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