On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 02:23:03PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 3/23/21 2:06 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > We have the postmaster which can pass arbitrary arguments to postgres
> > processes using -o.
>
> Right, and -o is already taken in pg_upgrade for sending options to the old
> postmaster.
>
> What we are looking for are options for sending options to pg_dump and
> pg_restore, which are not postmasters or children of postmaster, but rather
> clients. There is no option to send options to clients of postmasters.
>
> So the question remains, how do we name this?
>
> --pg-dump-options "<string>"
> --pg-restore-options "<string>"
>
> where "<string>" could be something like "--whatever[=NUM] [...]" would be
> something unambiguous.
Sure. I don't think the letter you use is a problem.
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