> Better idea: make pg_dump smarter, so that it sorts the tables by name
> as far as possible without breaking inheritance and membership
> dependencies. It already retrieves the inheritance graph, and it could
> certainly figure column-type dependencies too. I don't think anyone
> would object to producing the output in a more meaningful order, so
> I see no need for a switch if you can make this work.
>
> I used to know enough about topological sorts to sketch how this ought
> to work, but that was years ago :-(. I do see that the simplest
> approach to a sort comparison function, "if a depends on b then say a>b,
> else say result of comparing name(a) and name(b)", will not work because
> it's not transitive.
I now someone fixed some of that recently, and I thought it was in 6.5.
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