Re: [HACKERS] reload-through-the-top-parent switch the partition table - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] reload-through-the-top-parent switch the partition table
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYDrL1UdrAiYnwWKi3XoUVi_N=Z0CSoaKDx1SE1t+AbPQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] reload-through-the-top-parent switch the partition table  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] reload-through-the-top-parent switch the partition table
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On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> The patch itself looks just fine on a quick glance, modulo the lack of
>> documentation, but I think we need to bikeshed the name of the flag.
>> --reload-through-root is clear as daylight to me, but I'm not sure
>> users will agree.   The lack of the word "partition" is perhaps a
>> significant flaw, and pg_dump doesn't really reload anything; it just
>> dumps.
>
>> The best thing I can come up with after brief thought is
>> --partition-data-via-root, but maybe somebody else has a better idea?
>
> --restore-via-partition-root ?

I worry someone will think that pg_dump is now restoring stuff, but it isn't.

-- 
Robert Haas
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