On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 13:38 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> What confuses me about what you've written here specifically is that > pg_dump and pg_restore are different programs with different option > sets. So when you say we need both --with-statistics and > --no-statistics, I guess that's true, but we're not talking about the > same executable in both cases. It seems to me that pg_restore should > restore everything that was dumped, but that there should be (as > there > are) various --no-whatever switches to skip unwanted items. But > pg_dump should have dump a reasonable set of things by default, and > the user should be able to add to that or subtract from it. True, we could have different options for pg_dump and pg_restore, but to me that seems a little strange because so many of the other options overlap. I figured that would be confusing, but maybe it's fine. Regards, Jeff Davis