From: | "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(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 17:56:29 |
Message-ID: | d6d6637f0802110956u505c0787jdf12a932b6f909aa@mail.gmail.com |
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On Feb 11, 2008 3:41 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:29 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> What syntax do you suggest?
>
> How about we use the --file as the prefix?
> and just use a postfix of .1 and .2 and .3
It seems better to me to have a suffix that suggests some sort of
meaning. I'm not sure of the ideal names, but starting with:
.pre-schema, .data, and .post-schema as possibilities seems like a
route to get to possibly-better names...
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