On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc> wrote: > I for myself would be rather annoyed if we started quoting all column names > in our dumps. This is seriously hampering readability and while it is > already annoying that pg_dump output is slightly different from the original > DDL used this would make it far worse.
It's only been proposed to make it an option, not to shove it down anyone's throat. Given Tom's comments upthread, I suspect that much of this will come down to whether anyone feels like trying to put in the work to make this happen, and whether they can come up with a reasonably clean design that doesn't involve massive code changes. Having not studied the problem, I don't have an opinion on whether that's possible. I do agree that the human readability of pg_dump is an asset in many situations - I have often dumped out the DDL for particular objects just to look at it, for example. However, I emphatically do NOT agree that leaving someone with a 500MB dump file (or, for some people on this list, a whole heck of a lot larger than that) that has to be manually edited to reload is a useful behavior. It's a huge pain in the neck. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
