Re: -f option for pg_dumpall - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: -f option for pg_dumpall
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Msg-id 1168018503.18376.29.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to -f option for pg_dumpall  (Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
> As far as I can see, adding a -f option to pg_dumpall should be straight
> forward, the only issue being that we'd need to pass pg_dump an
> additional (undocumented?) option to tell it to append to the output
> file instead of writing it as normal.
> 
> Any thoughts or better ideas?

Yeah :) Getting rid of pg_dumpall entirely and merging it into pg_dump.
It is kind of silly that we have two different versions. Although that
may be more work than you were considering.

Joshua D. Drake


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> Regards, Dave.
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