Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup

On sön, 2011-05-22 at 16:43 -0400, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 17:45, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On fre, 2011-05-20 at 14:19 -0400, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> > I suggest we add an argument-less option -z that means "compress",
> >> and
> >> > then -Z can be relegated to choosing the compression level.
> >>
> >> We can't just use -Z without a parameter for that?
> >
> > You can't portably have a command-line option with an optional argument.
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> In that case, I'm fine with your suggestion.

Quick patch for verification.  I chose the naming -z/--gzip to mirror
GNU tar.