Removing comments from pg_dump output

Question

When a PostgreSQL pg_dump is done it inserts some comments for each element, as follows.

--
-- Name: my_table; Type: TABLE; Schema: account; Owner: user; Tablespace:
--

CREATE TABLE my_table(
    id integer
);

--
-- Name: my_seq; Type: SEQUENCE; Schema: account; Owner: user
--

CREATE SEQUENCE my_seq
    START WITH 1
    INCREMENT BY 1
    NO MINVALUE
    NO MAXVALUE
    CACHE 1;

Is it possible to force pg_dump to remove (exclude) them? I would like to receive just:

CREATE TABLE my_table(
    id integer
);

CREATE SEQUENCE my_seq
    START WITH 1
    INCREMENT BY 1
    NO MINVALUE
    NO MAXVALUE
    CACHE 1;

Answer 1

I've just submitted this patch for Postgres 11+ (still under consideration) that should allow one to dump without COMMENTS (until an ideal solution is in place) which should be a slightly better kludge than the ones we resort to using.

If there are enough voices, it may even get back-patched to Postgres 10!

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[UPDATE]

This is now a feature in Postgres v11+