Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Add --no-comments to skip COMMENTs with pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Add --no-comments to skip COMMENTs with pg_dump
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZUpeh+E6=CWUaOu9gHfgCpex9nG=16oQenx1F3meLeYQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Add --no-comments to skip COMMENTs with pg_dump  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Patch: Add --no-comments to skip COMMENTs with pg_dump
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 4:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> My proposal is that instead of looking at three hundred lines, you'd
> look for 50 lines of `pg_restore -l` output -- is element XYZ in there
> or not.  Quite a bit simpler for the guy adding a new test.  This tests
> combinations of pg_dump switches: are we dumping the right set of
> objects.

My counter-proposal is that we remove the test entirely.  It looks
like an unmaintainable and undocumented mess to me, and I doubt
whether the testing value is sufficient to justify the effort of
updating it every time anyone wants to change something in pg_dump.

-- 
Robert Haas
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