Peter,
* Peter Eisentraut (peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> On 4/13/17 12:11, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I wonder if we should have an --no-subscriptions option, now that they
> > are dumped by default, just like we have --no-blobs, --no-owner,
> > --no-password, --no-privileges, --no-acl, --no-tablespaces, and
> > --no-security-labels. It seems like there is probably a fairly large
> > use case for excluding subscriptions even if you have sufficient
> > permissions to dump them.
>
> What purpose would that serve in practice? The subscriptions are now
> dumped disabled, so if they hang around, there is not much impact.
Will they be allowed to be created as a non-superuser when loading into
another cluster? Even if you might have superuser rights on one
cluster, you may not on another.
> Perhaps an option that also omits publications would make sense?
Yes.
> Or a general filtering facility based on the object tag?
Perhaps.. I'd hate for it to end up being overly complicated though.
The general '--no-security-lables', '--no-tablespaces' and other options
are pretty straight-forward and I think that's a good thing.
Thanks!
Stephen