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Giving multiple same arguments to mysqldump (via wp db export) only forwards the latest

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mariadb, mysql, php
Domain
cli, databases

Research direction

Start at the wp db export command and inspect how repeated --ignore-table-data arguments are parsed before being passed to mysqldump. Reproduce the documented command with two values, then verify that both table arguments are forwarded and that existing export behavior remains intact.

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Description

bug command:db-export

Bug Report

Using the following example:

wp db export --ignore-table-data=database.wp_fc_campaign_emails --ignore-table-data=database.wp_fsmpt_email_logs --ignore-table-data=database.wp_fc_campaign_url_metrics export.sql

Only the value of --ignore-table-data=database.wp_fc_campaign_url_metrics is forwarded to mysqldump.

From the docs:

To specify more than one table to ignore, use the directive multiple times, once for each table. Each table must be specified with both database and table names. See also --no-data.

I expect the arguments are parsed, and duplicate keys are just overridden by each other, which is not expected in this scenario.

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