Thanks Andrew, Álvaro and Srinath for the review and feedback.

> 1) maybe match the pg_dumpall comment with the pg_dump comment.

I took this comment from pg_restore so i am keeping this same as pg_restore.

> 2) please fix the indentation using pgindent
> --
> Thanks,
> Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla
> EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/

Fixed.

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 at 17:41, Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2026-Mar-15, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> > On 2026-03-14 Sa 3:18 PM, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:
> >
> > > I was doing some tests with pg_dump, pg_dumpall and pg_restore tools.
> > > With "pg_dumpall --data-only --clean", we are reporting an error after
> > > dumping some data.
> >
> > Hmm, this looks like behaviour that goes a long way back. Should we
> > backpatch this fix?
>
> IMO it would make sense to do so.
>
> --
> Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

As per suggestions, I made patches till PG14.

Here, I am attaching updated patches.

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Mahendra Singh Thalor
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
From 9c206b78915663fef9387ba623bfb15350f280c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mahendra Singh Thalor <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:40:02 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] pg_dumpall: -clean and --data-only are incompatible

Report error when -clean and --data-only are given with pg_dumpall.

As of now, we are dumping some data and later we are exiting with
error from pg_dump.
---
 src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c   | 4 ++++
 src/bin/pg_dump/t/001_basic.pl | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c
index 3d2a1d27aef..20cdd2d92f0 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c
@@ -455,6 +455,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 						schema_only, "-s/--schema-only",
 						tablespaces_only, "-t/--tablespaces-only");
 
+	/* --clean and --data-only are incompatible */
+	check_mut_excl_opts(output_clean, "-c/--clean",
+						data_only, "-a/--data-only");
+
 	if (if_exists && !output_clean)
 		pg_fatal("option %s requires option %s",
 				 "--if-exists", "-c/--clean");
diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/t/001_basic.pl b/src/bin/pg_dump/t/001_basic.pl
index 2f5eb48e7b8..8aab1187282 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/t/001_basic.pl
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/t/001_basic.pl
@@ -50,6 +50,11 @@ command_fails_like(
 	'pg_dump: options -a/--data-only and -s/--schema-only cannot be used together'
 );
 
+command_fails_like(
+        [ 'pg_dumpall', '-c', '-a' ],
+        qr/\Qpg_dumpall: error: options -c\/--clean and -a\/--data-only cannot be used together\E/,
+        'pg_dumpall: options -c/--clean and -a/--data-only cannot be used together');
+
 command_fails_like(
 	[ 'pg_dump', '-s', '--statistics-only' ],
 	qr/\Qpg_dump: error: options -s\/--schema-only and --statistics-only cannot be used together\E/,
-- 
2.52.0

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