Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> --multidump-prefix=foobar
> and it creates foobar.1.predata, foobar.2.data, foobar.3.postdata
>
> or something like that? The number would help to sort them
> appropriately, and the string would ensure that you know what each file
> is ... perhaps we could have %-escapes in the name to expand to both of
> these? Perhaps we could have other %-escapes for things like database
> name --- so you could say --multidump-filename=%d.%n.%t.dump ... but
> then it would be nice to have strftime escapes too.
>
> Or is this too complex?
>
Yes, I think it is. We do not have to be infinitely flexible. KISS seems
apposite.
cheers
andrew
