RE: current is broken

At 21:35 13/09/00 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> >BTW, does anybody know about the status of pg_dump? It seems tons of
>> >features have been added, but I wonder if all of them are going to
>> >appear in 7.1. Especially now it seems to have an ability to dump
>> >Blobs, but the flag (-b) to enable the feature has been disabled. Why?
>>
>> Is it? AFAIK, it should not have been disabled. The long params version is
>> --blob - does that work?
>
>Ok, long params works. It seems just adding 'b' to the third argument
>of getopt() solves "-b" option problem. Do you wnat to fix by yourself?

May as well, since I'll be doing some other stuff.

>> Personally, I'd like to see them in 7.1, unless the testing period
>> reveals a swag of major flaws... Once CVS is up again, I intend to
>> do a little more work on pg_dump, so now would be a good time to let
>> me know if there are problems.
>
>New pg_dump looks great. Could you add docs for it so that we can test
>it out?

It's on the list - I'm still waiting for an upgrade to Framemaker, since I
can't stomach raw SGML. If it doesn't arrive soon, I'll just have to do it
the hard way.

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