On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2025 at 09:14:32AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > We have > > > > -a, --data-only dump only the data, not the schema or statistics > > --no-data do not dump data > > --with-data dump the data # this one is new > > > > (and there is also --section=data), and then three analogous options for > > "schema" and "statistics". > > > > What is the purpose of the --with-data option? Dumping the data is the > > default. Is this to override an earlier --no-data option? > > I believe the idea is that these will allow folks to be explicit about what > they want instead of needing to understand the defaults for every > component.
Am I too late to propose ripping this out? I mean, if I look at pg_dump --help and there are options for --with-broccoli and --without-mushrooms, I know that the defaults are no brocooli, yes mushrooms, and I know which options I need to specify to get the behavior that I want, whatever that happens to be. If all options exist in both forms, it's a lot more confusing. Maybe there's some issue of cross-version compatibility here that justifies this complexity, but I don't see what it would be. I would think --with-data has always been the default and always will be, so we just don't need --with-data for anything. But maybe I'm confused. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
