On 2014-10-24 07:18:55 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Jeevan Chalke wrote:
>
> > Regarding Directory Error:
> > ===
> > I strongly against the proposal. This patch changing error message to
> > something like this:
> > "psql:blah:0: Input path is a directory. Use pg_restore to restore
> > directory-format database dumps."
> >
> > So even though I accidentally provide a directory instead of a sql script
> > file when I have NO intention of restoring a dump, above message looks
> > weired. Instead current message looks perfectly fine here. i.e.
> > "could not read from input file: Is a directory"
> >
> > psql always expect a file and NOT directory. Also it is not necessarily
> > working on restoring a dump.
>
> Yeah, this patch is a lot more debatable than the other one. I have
> pushed the first one without changing the error message.
We could just test for toc.dat and then emit the warning...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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