"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:22:19PM -0700, David Fetter wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:28:21PM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: >>> My first thought is that the rule should be to apply all the >>> inclusion switches (implicitly including everything if there are >>> none), then apply all the exclusion switches. >> >> +1 :) >> Order-dependent switches are a giant foot gun.
> They're also very powerful, as anyone who's ever used them in a > non-trivial rsync (or rdiff-backup) scenareo can tell you. Sure, but the question is whether that incremental gain in capability is worth the extra logical complexity. I'm inclined to think that many more users would get burned by the complexity than would have use for it. Considering that we've gotten along this long with only the most primitive selection capabilities in pg_dump, it doesn't seem like there's an enormous demand for highly refined capabilities. (And I agree with David's comment that it might be better to reserve such behavior for a configuration file than to put it on the command line.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly