Re: pg_dump --comment?

Jan Wieck wrote:
> This can be accomplished with 10-20 lines of shell scripting. I don't
> think it's worth the trouble bloating pg_dump with it at all.

Considering how much bloat -v adds, adding a datestamp to it is trivial.
-v outputs things like:

--
-- TOC entry 1449 (class 0 OID 0)
-- Dependencies: 4
-- Name: public; Type: ACL; Schema: -; Owner: postgres
--

so adding a timestamp at the top is probably a good extension.

Actually, the pg_dump -v docs are incorrect because they only mention
additional stderr output, not the additional comments. I updated the
text to:

Specifies verbose mode. This will cause
<application>pg_dump</application> to output detailed object
comments in the dump file, and progress messages to standard error.

This -v functionality controlling comments is new in 7.5.

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