Re: -f <output file> option for pg_dumpall

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:40:20PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
> >In pgAdmin we use pg_dump's -f option to write backup files. The IO
> >streams are redirected to display status and errors etc. in the GUI.
> >
> >In order to enhance the interface to allow backup of entire clusters as
> >well as role and tablespace definitions, we need to be able to get
> >pg_dumpall to write it's output directly to a file in the same way,
> >because we cannot redirect the child pg_dump IO streams (which also
> >means we may miss errors, but I need to think about that some more).
> >
> >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?
>
>
> This seems a bit like piecemeal reform. Here are some things I'd like to
> see that affect this area:
>
> . merge pg_dump and pg_dumpall (e.g. add a flag to pg_dump that says do
> the lot)
> . multi-db non-text dumps
>
> And while we're about it, can we teach pg_restore to handle text dumps?
> Even if it just transparently called psql it would be nice.

+1 on all of this :)

Cheers,
D (who can contribute code once we've agreed on what it should do)
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