Re: Does anything dump per-database config settings? (was Re: ALTER DATABASE vs pg_dump) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: Does anything dump per-database config settings? (was Re: ALTER DATABASE vs pg_dump)
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Msg-id 200806292247.03492.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
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In response to Re: Does anything dump per-database config settings? (was Re: ALTER DATABASE vs pg_dump)  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Responses Re: Does anything dump per-database config settings? (was Re: ALTER DATABASE vs pg_dump)  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Friday 27 June 2008 12:58:41 Richard Huxton wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> > Richard Huxton wrote:
> >> At present it means you can't reliably do:
> >>  DROP DATABASE foo;
> >>  pg_restore --create foo.dump
> >> I'd then have to either hand edit the dumpall dump or wade through a
> >> bunch of errors checking that none of them were relevant.
> >
> > Actually, I'm not sure pg_dumpall does them either.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Am I doing something stupid here?
>
> OK - so to get the ALTER DATABASE commands I need to dump the schema for
> the entire cluster. Is that really desired behaviour?
>

Certainly not desired by a number of people I have talked to, but I don't have 
much hope in seeing the behavoir change... perhaps someday if we get around 
to merging pg_dump and pg_dumpall....

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL


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