Re: pg_dump exclusion switches and functions/types

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> However, ISTM that a similar facility for fine grained control could 
>> fairly easily be built into pg_dump.
>>     
>
> Yeah ... later.
>
> The way I envision it is that the schema-related switches are fine for
> selecting things at the level of whole schemas, and the table-related
> switches are fine for selecting individual tables, and what we lack are
> inclusion/exclusion switches that operate on other kinds of individual
> objects.  Somebody can design and implement those later, if the itch
> strikes.  What we have to do today is make sure that the interaction of
> schema and table switches is such that an extension in that direction
> will fit in naturally.
>
>     
>   

totally agree.

cheers

andrew