Re: Anyone working on pg_dump dependency ordering?

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

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> There are two levels (sort of) of dependency.  The first is that whole 
> classes of objects can be dependent on whole other classes.  eg. 
> databases depend on users, or ALL FK's can be dumped after ALL tables, 
> etc..  It would make the dump more readable if you dumped those 
> definite dependencies in that order, rather than shuffling everything up.
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I agree that dumping should be done class-wise (Tables, Functions, 
Views) whenever possible, but I don't agree on FKs dumped separately 
from the table. IMHO indexes and constraints belong to the table, and 
modifying the dump will be hard if a table's code is scattered all around.


Regards,
Andreas