Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup

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.


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