Re: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Mark Stosberg <mark(at)summersault(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump
Date: 2007-03-19 17:43:28
Message-ID: 200703191743.l2JHhSS04401@momjian.us
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Mark Stosberg wrote:
> It woud also be nice to document that the full names "custom" and "tar" are
> supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity.
>
> ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing
> an error. )

I don't see that with current CVS:

$ pg_dump --format=x test
pg_dump: invalid output format "x" specified

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