Re: [HACKERS] Refactor handling of database attributes between pg_dump and pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Well, we could say that the properties of template1 and postgres
>> are only restored if you use --clean.

> True.  Would that be a POLA violation, do you think?

It seems a bit non-orthogonal.  Also, while your point that people
expect "merge" behavior from pg_dump is certainly true, I'm not
convinced that anybody would be relying on that for pg_dumpall.

            regards, tom lane