On Sun, 26 Oct 2025 at 05:32, Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> wrote: > > On 2024-Sep-26, Florents Tselai wrote: > > but the -e note on the distinction between installing binaries / creating > > an extension I think it's important. > > Hmm, ok, but I think that's a slightly unrelated topic because the shlib > is not a database object. Maybe it would be more appropriate to add a > mention of this directly in the docs for -e instead of trying to cram it > in the note about other database objects. I'll wait for you to propose > something for that part.
This seems to be waiting on Florents. I've adjusted the CF entry to reflect that.
Florents, are you planning on coming back to this?
Thanks for pushing.
I consolidated the dependency warnings into the main "Notes" section for both pg_dump and pg_restore, removing the repetitive per-switch notes.
For the -e switch in pg_dump, I replaced the removed dependency note
with a specific warning that extension installation files (shared libs, control files) are not included.
I agree that maintaining a specific note for -e is the right move.
Given the broad usage of pg_dump, it is helpful to be explicit that the dump only captures the SQL definitions and not the underlying system binaries.
