Re: proposal: pg_restore --convert-to-text

Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>

From: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
To: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2019-02-18T22:17:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Em qui, 14 de fev de 2019 às 22:41, Andreas Karlsson
<andreas@proxel.se> escreveu:
> Agreed, "-f -" would be acceptable. I use pg_restore to stdout a lot,
> but almost always manually and would have to have to remember and type
> "--convert-to-text".
>
Since no one has stepped up, I took a stab at it. It will prohibit
standard output unless '-f -' be specified. -l option also has the
same restriction.

It breaks backward compatibility and as Tom suggested a variant of
this patch (without docs) should be applied to back branches.


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Commits

  1. pg_restore: Require "-f -" to mean stdout