Re: 7 hrs for a pg_restore?

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> writes:
>> On Feb 20, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Gregory Stark wrote:
>>> I would suggest leaving out the && which only obfuscate what's
>>> going on here.
>>>
>>> PGOPTIONS=... pg_restore ...
>>>
>>> would work just as well and be clearer about what's going on.
>
>> Right, that's just an unnecessary habit of mine.
>
> Isn't that habit outright wrong? ISTM that with the && in there,
> what you're doing is equivalent to
>
> PGOPTIONS=whatever
> pg_restore ...
>
> This syntax will set PGOPTIONS for the remainder of the shell session,
> causing it to also affect (say) a subsequent psql invocation. Which is
> exactly not what is wanted.

It's even better than that. I don't see an "export" there, so it won't
take effect at all!

Matthew

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