Re: Backup, restore & pg_dump

What was the matter with the name pg_restore?

>
> Since we may have a workable backup/restore based on WAL available in 7.1,
> I am now wondering at the wisdom of creating 'pg_restore', which reads the
> new pg_dump archive files. It is probably better to have pg_backup &
> pg_restore as the backup/restore utilities.
>
> As a result do people have any objection to changing pg_restore to
> pg_undump? Or pg_load?
>
> Any other suggestions would also be welcome.
>
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