Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:
> Now that I've written this in that email, I think I'm going to go for
> the new command. But maybe we have some precedent for objects that we
> list in pg_dump only for solving several steps dependency lookups?
Yes, pg_dump has lots of objects that might not appear in a dump.
The most recent examples are the section fence objects ...
regards, tom lane