| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump |
| Date: | 2011-01-21 13:35:37 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTi=pFPJO8E5EkdoJET9jc+yq5c2d3VDqf2d9e6Qt@mail.gmail.com |
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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)
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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