On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I agree. Since any multiple-output-file case can't usefully use stdout,
> I think we should combine the switches and just have one switch that
> says both that you want separated output and what the target filename
> is. Thus something like
>
> --pre-schema-file = foo
> --data-file = bar
> --post-schema-file = baz
Or we could have a switch that specifies a directory and have pg_dump
split the dump not just in pre-schema, data and post-schema, but also
split the data in a file for each table. That would greatly facilitate
a parallel restore of the data through multiple connections.
Jochem
