Re: pg_dump feature patch to allow selection of rows to

Seth Robertson wrote:
> In order to support some automation, I needed the ability to pull out
> subsets of postgres tables in a format which could be loaded into
> other postgres databases.

One alternative would be using CREATE TABLE AS to create a separate
table containing the desired subset, and then using pg_dump to dump that
table.

> Instead of writing a utility to replicate the functionality in
> pg_dump, I created a new flag, --where, which allows you to postpend
> where (or order or limit or whatever) sql fragments at the end of the
> select done by pg_dump.

Neat, but IMHO too much of a kludge for mainline.

-Neil