Re: pg_dump feature patch to allow selection of rows to - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_dump feature patch to allow selection of rows to
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Msg-id 24206.1126555341@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pg_dump feature patch to allow selection of rows to  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> Seth Robertson wrote:
>> Instead of writing a utility to replicate the functionality in
>> pg_dump, I created a new flag, --where, which allows you to postpend
>> where (or order or limit or whatever) sql fragments at the end of the
>> select done by pg_dump.

> Neat, but IMHO too much of a kludge for mainline.

Yeah, I felt the same --- the fact that it doesn't work for the normal
COPY case renders it a bit too ugly.

            regards, tom lane

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