On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:27 AM Akshay Joshi <akshay.jo...@enterprisedb.com>
wrote:

> Hi Dave
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:23 PM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 6:01 AM Akshay Joshi <
>> akshay.jo...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dave
>>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:09 PM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A number of people have asked for the ability to import and export
>>>> server definitions. It's also convenient to have such a feature in the
>>>> container world, where new instances of pgAdmin containers may be created
>>>> on the fly.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a draft patch to allow that, including docs and a basic test.
>>>>
>>>> Review feedback please?
>>>>
>>>
>>>     Patch looks good to me. Can we have option to provide the servers to
>>> be exported? It may possible that user don't want to export the local
>>> servers as it is automatically detected. Can we have GUI(may be dialog)
>>> for this?
>>>
>>
>> This is intentionally not a GUI feature.
>>
>> I've added a --server flag to allow the user to specify specific servers
>> (without it, all are dumped), and changed the JSON structure per the
>> discussion we had earlier to ensure that servers with duplicate names can
>> be dumped.
>>
>
>     Following are the review comments:
>
>    - "--server" should be "--servers" as user can specify multiple
>    servers to dump.
>    - Instead of specifying server names with --server, it should be
>    server ids which is easy for user to type. As names can be a long strings.
>    - One more advantage of using server id over name is consider a case
>    where two different servers having same name. With current implementation
>    it will dump only one server.
>
> Thanks - done and pushed.

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