Re: TODO item: Allow more complex user/database default GUC settings

Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > And here's the last necessary bit, which is pg_dump support for all
> > this.
> 
> > +         /* Dump role/database settings */
> > +         if (!tablespaces_only)
> > +         {
> > +             if (server_version >= 80500)
> > +                 dumpDbRoleConfig(conn);
> > +         }
> 
> Hmm ... I would kind of think that --roles-only should suppress this too.
> Otherwise you're going to be dumping commands that might refer to
> nonexistent databases.

Hmm.  The problem I have with this idea is that the only way to dump the
per-database role settings is if you are also dumping the contents of
all databases.  Which seems like a pain to me because the usage I
usually recommend is to backup global objects with pg_dumpall -g.

I wonder if pg_dumpall should have a method for dumping database
creation and settings, excluding contents (leaving that for plain
pg_dump).

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