On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 05:47 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 23:07 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Simon,
> >
> > I agree with adding these options in general, since I find myself
> > frustrated by having to vi huge dumps to change simple schema things.
> > A couple of comments on the patch though:
> >
> > - Conflicting option handling
> > I think we are doing our users a disservice by putting it on them to
> > figure out exactly what:
> > multiple object groups cannot be used together
> > means to them. You and I may understand what an "object group" is,
> > and why there can be only one, but it's a great deal less clear than
> > the prior message of
> > options -s/--schema-only and -a/--data-only cannot be used together
> > My suggestion would be to either list out the specific options which
> > can't be used together, as was done previously, or add a bit of (I
> > realize, boring) code and actually tell the user which of the
> > conflicting options were used.
> >
> > - Documentation
> > When writing the documentation I would stress that "pre-schema" and
> > "post-schema" be defined in terms of PostgreSQL objects and why they
> > are pre vs. post.
> >
> > - Technically, the patch needs to be updated slightly since another
> > pg_dump-related patch was committed recently which also added
> > options and thus causes a conflict.
> >
> > Beyond those minor points, the patch looks good to me.
>
> Thanks for the review. I'll make the changes you suggest.
Patch updated to head, plus changes/docs requested.
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