Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump

On 01/21/2011 10:34 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 21.01.2011 15:35, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> There's one UI thing that bothers me. The option to specify the target
>>> directory is called --file. But it's clearly not a file. OTOH, I'd
>>> hate to
>>> introduce a parallel --dir option just for this. Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> If we were starting over, I'd probably suggest calling the option -o,
>> --output. But since -o is already taken (for --oids) I'd be inclined
>> to just make the help text read:
>>
>> -f, --file=FILENAME output file (or directory) name
>> -F, --format=c|t|p|d output file format (custom, tar, text,
>> dir)
>
> Ok, that's exactly what the patch does now. I guess it's fine then.
>

Maybe we could change the hint to say "--file=DESTINATION" or
"--file=FILENAME|DIRNAME" ?

Just a thought.

cheers

andrew