Re: pg_dump directory archive format / parallel pg_dump

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> There's one UI thing that bothers me. The option to specify the target
> directory is called --file. But it's clearly not a file. OTOH, I'd hate to
> introduce a parallel --dir option just for this. Any thoughts on this?

If we were starting over, I'd probably suggest calling the option -o,
--output.  But since -o is already taken (for --oids) I'd be inclined
to just make the help text read:

  -f, --file=FILENAME         output file (or directory) name
  -F, --format=c|t|p|d        output file format (custom, tar, text, dir)

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Robert Haas
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