Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall

Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>

From: Srinath Reddy <srinath2133@gmail.com>
To: Mahendra Singh Thalor <mahi6run@gmail.com>, jian.universality@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2025-02-03T09:02:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Add non-text output formats to pg_dumpall

  2. Improve pg_dump/pg_dumpall help synopses and terminology

  3. Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore

  4. Doc: manually break lines in wide UUID examples.

here's the whole version of delta patch

diff --git a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
index 42c4fe3ce2..90e6b71a50 100644
--- a/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
+++ b/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_restore.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static int restoreAllDatabases(PGconn *conn, const char
*dumpdirpath,
    SimpleStringList db_exclude_patterns, RestoreOptions *opts, int
numWorkers);
 static void execute_global_sql_commands(PGconn *conn, const char
*dumpdirpath,
  const char *outfile);
-static void copy_global_file_to_out_file(const char *outfile, FILE *pfile);
+static void copy_global_file(const char *outfile, FILE *pfile);
 static int filter_dbnames_for_restore(PGconn *conn,
   SimpleDatabaseOidList *dbname_oid_list,
   SimpleStringList db_exclude_patterns);
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ execute_global_sql_commands(PGconn *conn, const char
*dumpdirpath, const char *o
  */
  if (outfile)
  {
- copy_global_file_to_out_file(outfile, pfile);
+ copy_global_file(outfile, pfile);
  return;
  }

@@ -1207,24 +1207,35 @@ execute_global_sql_commands(PGconn *conn, const
char *dumpdirpath, const char *o
 }

 /*
- * copy_global_file_to_out_file
+ * copy_global_file
  *
- * This will copy global.dat file into out file.
+ * This will copy global.dat file into out file, if file is given
+ * else copies to stdout.
+ *
  */
 static void
-copy_global_file_to_out_file(const char *outfile, FILE *pfile)
+copy_global_file(const char *outfile, FILE *pfile)
 {
  char out_file_path[MAXPGPATH];
  FILE *ofile;
  int c;

- snprintf(out_file_path, MAXPGPATH, "%s", outfile);
- ofile = fopen(out_file_path, PG_BINARY_W);
+ if (strcmp(outfile, "-") == 0)
+ {
+ int fn = fileno(stdout);
+ ofile = fdopen(dup(fn), PG_BINARY_W);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ snprintf(out_file_path, MAXPGPATH, "%s", outfile);
+ ofile = fopen(out_file_path, PG_BINARY_W);
+ }
+

  if (ofile == NULL)
  {
  fclose(pfile);
- pg_fatal("could not open file: \"%s\"", out_file_path);
+ pg_fatal("could not open file: \"%s\"", outfile);
  }

  /* Now append global.dat into out file. */


> Regards,
> Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla,
> EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com <http://www.enterprisedb.com/>
>
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