Re: Suggested "easy" TODO: pg_dump --from-list

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Well, very little about pg_dump is very [E], IMNSHO. The question in my
>> mind here is what format the list file will take

> I was thinking same format as pg_restore -l, only without the dumpIDs.

Nope ... those strings are just helpful comments, they aren't really
guaranteed to be unique identifiers.  In any case, it seems unlikely
that a user could expect to get the more complicated cases exactly right
other than by consulting "pg_dump | pg_restore -l" output.  Which makes
the use-case kind of dubious to me.

I don't say that this wouldn't be a useful feature, but you need a
better spec than this.
        regards, tom lane