Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)s-itsolutions(dot)at>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump additional options for performance
Date: 2008-02-11 15:29:44
Message-ID: 47B069E8.3020303@dunslane.net
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> --multidump-prefix=foobar
> and it creates foobar.1.predata, foobar.2.data, foobar.3.postdata
>
> or something like that? The number would help to sort them
> appropriately, and the string would ensure that you know what each file
> is ... perhaps we could have %-escapes in the name to expand to both of
> these? Perhaps we could have other %-escapes for things like database
> name --- so you could say --multidump-filename=%d.%n.%t.dump ... but
> then it would be nice to have strftime escapes too.
>
> Or is this too complex?
>

Yes, I think it is. We do not have to be infinitely flexible. KISS seems
apposite.

cheers

andrew

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