Right now, if you use
pg_basebackup -Ft -D -
you get a tarfile, written to stdout, for redirection.
However, if you use:
pg_basebackup -Fp -D -
you get a plaintext (unpackaged) backup, in a directory called "-".
I can't think of a single usecase where this is a good idea. Therefor,
I would suggest we simply throw an error in this case, instead of
creating the directory. Only for the specific case of specifying
exactly "-" as a directory.
Comments?
Also, if we do that, is this something we should consider
backpatchable? It's not strictly speaking a bugfix, but I'd say it
fixes some seriously annoying behavior.
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