On 2026-Mar-16, Mahendra Singh Thalor wrote:
> We were trimming slashes due to the below test case.
>
> *Ex:*
> ./pg_dumpall -f dumpdir --format=d
>
> ./pg_restore *dumpdir/ *-d postgres -C --format=d --verbose
> pg_restore: found database "template1" (OID: 1) in file "*dumpdir//map.dat*"
> pg_restore: found database "postgres" (OID: 5) in file "*dumpdir//map.dat*"
> pg_restore: found 2 database names in "map.dat"
> pg_restore: need to restore 2 databases out of 2 databases
>
> Here, before map.dat, there were 2 slashes so we were trimming slashes.
> Please add your opinion for this output.
I think this is perfectly fine. Two slashes work correctly, and many
other tools behave this way when given redundant slashes. If the user
doesn't want to see the redundant slashes, they can just not specify a
trailing slash in the argument value.
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