The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 16981
Logged by: Edwin Polkerman
Email address: edwin.polkerman@splendiddata.com
PostgreSQL version: 13.2
Operating system: Centos7/8, RHEL7/8, SUSE12/15
Description:
Basically it is more an improvement than a real bug
Run the following pg_dump command:
> pg_dump -h 10.17.0.12 -p 5432 -d postgres -U splendid -f
/home/splendid/pg_dump_file.tar -F t -v --compress=4
As expected pg_dump returns an error:
pg_dump: error: compression is not supported by tar archive format
What was not expected is that the file pg_dump_file.tar is created (with 0
size)
> ls -l /home/splendid
-rw-rw-r-- 1 splendid splendid 0 Apr 23 12:50 pg_dump_file.tar
To my opinion the dump file should not be created because the check on
options provided can be done before creating the result file
