Re: -f <output file> option for pg_dumpall

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: -f <output file> option for pg_dumpall
Date: 2007-01-05 17:35:03
Message-ID: 1168018503.18376.29.camel@localhost.localdomain
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> As far as I can see, adding a -f option to pg_dumpall should be straight
> forward, the only issue being that we'd need to pass pg_dump an
> additional (undocumented?) option to tell it to append to the output
> file instead of writing it as normal.
>
> Any thoughts or better ideas?

Yeah :) Getting rid of pg_dumpall entirely and merging it into pg_dump.
It is kind of silly that we have two different versions. Although that
may be more work than you were considering.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Regards, Dave.
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