On Friday 27 June 2008 12:58:41 Richard Huxton wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> > Richard Huxton wrote:
> >> At present it means you can't reliably do:
> >> DROP DATABASE foo;
> >> pg_restore --create foo.dump
> >> I'd then have to either hand edit the dumpall dump or wade through a
> >> bunch of errors checking that none of them were relevant.
> >
> > Actually, I'm not sure pg_dumpall does them either.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Am I doing something stupid here?
>
> OK - so to get the ALTER DATABASE commands I need to dump the schema for
> the entire cluster. Is that really desired behaviour?
>
Certainly not desired by a number of people I have talked to, but I don't have
much hope in seeing the behavoir change... perhaps someday if we get around
to merging pg_dump and pg_dumpall....
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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL