Re: security labels on databases are bad for dump & restore

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 04:23:36PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> > On 07/28/2015 11:58 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > I'd be strongly in favour of teaching GRANT, SECURITY LABEL, COMMENT
> > >> ON DATABASE, etc to recognise CURRENT_DATABASE as a keyword. Then
> > >> dumping them in pg_dump --create, and in pg_dump -Fc .
> > >>
> > >> In practice I see zero real use of pg_dumpall without --globals-only,
> > >> and almost everyone does pg_dump -Fc . I'd like to see that method
> > >> case actually preserve the whole state of the system and do the right
> > >> thing sensibly.
> > >>
> > >> A pg_restore option to skip database-level settings could be useful,
> > >> but I think by default they should be restored.
> > 
> > +++++1
> > 
> > Let's get rid of pg_dumpall -g.
> 
> Quite the opposite, I think --- let's get rid of pg_dumpall EXCEPT when
> invoked as pg_dumpall -g.

Is this a TODO?

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