Re: pg_dump incorrect output in plaintext mode

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I don't see anything particularly incorrect about that. The point of
>> the --verbose switch is to track what pg_dump is doing, and if what
>> it's doing involves going through RestoreArchive(), why should we try
>> to hide the fact?

> "restoring data for table 't'" makes you think it's actuall restoring
> things. It's not. That dumping is implemented by calling an internal
> function called RestoreArchive() has to be an implementation detail...
> It certainly confuses users that we say "restoring" when we're not
> doing that...

Well, why don't we just s/restoring/processing/ in the debug message,
and call it good?

regards, tom lane