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Re: Avoid too prominent use of "backup" on pg_dump man page

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-05-31T08:24:36Z
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On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 08:21 +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> No objections to using export over backup, but it does make the use of
> "restore" feel awkward as that's generally an operation on a backup and not an
> export.
> 
> -        least one schema/table in the backup file.
> +        least one schema/table in the file to be restored.
> 
> Would it make sense to use "import" in some cases instead?

What about calling it "dump file" instead of "file to be restored"?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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