Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 07/28/2015 11:58 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I'd be strongly in favour of teaching GRANT, SECURITY LABEL, COMMENT
> >> ON DATABASE, etc to recognise CURRENT_DATABASE as a keyword. Then
> >> dumping them in pg_dump --create, and in pg_dump -Fc .
> >>
> >> In practice I see zero real use of pg_dumpall without --globals-only,
> >> and almost everyone does pg_dump -Fc . I'd like to see that method
> >> case actually preserve the whole state of the system and do the right
> >> thing sensibly.
> >>
> >> A pg_restore option to skip database-level settings could be useful,
> >> but I think by default they should be restored.
>
> +++++1
>
> Let's get rid of pg_dumpall -g.
Quite the opposite, I think --- let's get rid of pg_dumpall EXCEPT when
invoked as pg_dumpall -g.
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