Bug #84134 mysqldump should have a way of disabling the export of views
Submitted: 9 Dec 2016 1:58
Reporter: David Gow (OCA) Email Updates:
Status: Open Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Utilities Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.7 OS:Any
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: mysqldump

[9 Dec 2016 1:58] David Gow
Description:
To avoid exporting views when exporting an entire database in mysqldump, one must specify all views independently using --skip-table.

How to repeat:
mysqldump documentation

Suggested fix:
It would be useful to have a feature which allows a database to be exported, without any views.