Re: Feature: give pg_dump a WHERE clause expression

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Davy Durham <[email protected]> writes:
> So, if this patch is not acceptable as-is, what would you feel about
> this: 
>         I could enhance the -t/--table=NAME option to accept more than a
>         simple NAME.  Rather it could accept something in the form:
        
>                 --table=<table_name>:<where-clause expression>

Well, that would at least address the complaint that it doesn't scale
to multiple tables, but the whole thing still seems like a frammish
that will never see enough use to justify maintaining it.

(BTW, what will you do with a table whose name contains a colon?)

			regards, tom lane

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