On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After extensive off-list discussion with Joel it became clear that > per-object dumping ability really belongs in pg_restore. > The only benefit I could see in putting it in pg_restore is you would then be able to do a --split on already existing historical dumps. On the other hand, it would require you to use both pg_dump and pg_restore, instead of only pg_dump, which makes it a bit less user-friendly. I haven't looked at how it could be implemented in pg_restore, if its even just a little more complex, it's probably better to let pg_dump handle the task.