Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Trying to get back on point. What is the scope of work for the TODO > >> item? Forget everything else I brought up. What is the goal of the > >> existing TODO? > > > > I'm not sure that the TODO item has a reason to live at all, but surely > > the first item of work for it should be to figure out what its use-case > > is. If pg_dump isn't going to use these functions, what will? > > Well I can't think of a reason to use the functions as a way to deliver > CREATE statements. > > Anyone else have thoughts?
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