| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | donald(dot)a(dot)pellegrino(at)usa(dot)dupont(dot)com, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bug #631: pg_dumpall does not accept -F or -f |
| Date: | 2002-04-10 22:20:26 |
| Message-ID: | 200204102220.g3AMKQq27012@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > The pg_dumpall script seems to ignore the file and format switches
> > that are used with pg_dump. pg_dumpall always writes to stdout in
> > text format. Also, the -b switch can not be used with pg_dumpall
> > since text output is being forced.
>
> That's not a bug.
Peter, can you explain why to the user; it is not clear to me why
either, though I have my suspicions, and shouldn't we throw an error to
the user when they try it?
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