Re: pg_dump new feature: exporting functions only. Bad or good idea ?

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 03:23:07PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> Looking at this thread I think it makes sense to go ahead with this patch.  The
> filter functionality worked on in another thread is dealing with cherry-picking
> certain objects where this is an all-or-nothing switch, so I don't think they
> are at odds with each other.

Including both procedures and functions sounds natural from here.  Now
I have a different question, something that has not been discussed in
this thread at all.  What about patterns?  Switches like --table or
--extension are able to digest a psql-like pattern to decide which
objects to dump.  Is there a reason not to have this capability for
this new switch with procedure names?  I mean to handle the case
without the function arguments, even if the same name is used by
multiple functions with different arguments.

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Michael