Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
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> There are two levels (sort of) of dependency. The first is that whole
> classes of objects can be dependent on whole other classes. eg.
> databases depend on users, or ALL FK's can be dumped after ALL tables,
> etc.. It would make the dump more readable if you dumped those
> definite dependencies in that order, rather than shuffling everything up.
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I agree that dumping should be done class-wise (Tables, Functions,
Views) whenever possible, but I don't agree on FKs dumped separately
from the table. IMHO indexes and constraints belong to the table, and
modifying the dump will be hard if a table's code is scattered all around.
Regards,
Andreas