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

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 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
>
> Bruce,
>
> I think the specific test case would have to start with a valid letter,
> like "t", and then include invalid characters. Try this instead:
>
> pg_dump --format=tx test

Thanks for the report. I have corrected this and the fix will be in
PostgreSQL 8.3. Interestingly, we support non-documented option
"append" and "file" too.

Patch attached and applied.

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