Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 21.01.2011 15:35, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>  wrote:
>> There's one UI thing that bothers me. The option to specify the target
>> directory is called --file. But it's clearly not a file. OTOH, I'd hate to
>> introduce a parallel --dir option just for this. Any thoughts on this?
>
> If we were starting over, I'd probably suggest calling the option -o,
> --output.  But since -o is already taken (for --oids) I'd be inclined
> to just make the help text read:
>
>    -f, --file=FILENAME         output file (or directory) name
>    -F, --format=c|t|p|d        output file format (custom, tar, text, dir)

Ok, that's exactly what the patch does now. I guess it's fine then.

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