On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 23:07 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Simon, > > I agree with adding these options in general, since I find myself > frustrated by having to vi huge dumps to change simple schema things. > A couple of comments on the patch though: > > - Conflicting option handling > I think we are doing our users a disservice by putting it on them to > figure out exactly what: > multiple object groups cannot be used together > means to them. You and I may understand what an "object group" is, > and why there can be only one, but it's a great deal less clear than > the prior message of > options -s/--schema-only and -a/--data-only cannot be used together > My suggestion would be to either list out the specific options which > can't be used together, as was done previously, or add a bit of (I > realize, boring) code and actually tell the user which of the > conflicting options were used. > > - Documentation > When writing the documentation I would stress that "pre-schema" and > "post-schema" be defined in terms of PostgreSQL objects and why they > are pre vs. post. > > - Technically, the patch needs to be updated slightly since another > pg_dump-related patch was committed recently which also added > options and thus causes a conflict. > > Beyond those minor points, the patch looks good to me.
Thanks for the review. I'll make the changes you suggest. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list (pgsql-patches@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches
