2013/3/8 Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2013/3/8 Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>:
>
>>> Cool. I think it would also be useful to check that --clean may only
>>> be used with --format=p to avoid any confusion there. (This issue
>>> could be addressed in a separate patch if you'd rather not lard this
>>> patch.)
>>
>> no
>>
>> some people - like we in our company would to use this feature for
>> quiet and strict mode for plain text format too.
>>
>> enabling this feature has zero overhead so there are no reason block
>> it anywhere.
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at, but maybe my
> proposal wasn't so clear. Right now, you can specify --clean along
> with -Fc to pg_dump, and pg_dump will not complain even though this
> combination is nonsense. I am proposing that pg_dump error out in this
> case, i.e.
>
> $ pg_dump -Fc --file=test.dump --clean -d test
> pg_dump: option --clean only valid with plain format dump
>
> Although this lack of an error a (IMO) misfeature of existing pg_dump,
> so if you'd rather leave this issue aside for your patch, that is
> fine.
I'll see - please, stay tuned to 9.4 first commitfest
Regards
Pavel
>
> Josh
