Re: pg_dump verbose start and stop times?

On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thursday, May 29, 2025, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/app-pgdump.html
>> "
>> Specifies verbose mode. This will cause pg_dump to output detailed
>> object comments and start/stop times to the dump file, and progress
>> messages to standard error.
>> "
>>
>> But I don't see any timing messages. What am I misunderstanding in the
>> docs?
>>
>
> It says there the times end up in the dump file, which you redirected and
> didn’t show the contents of.
>

The non-sense of putting start and stop times in the dump file while not
putting them in stderr must have caused my brain to skip over "to the dump
file".

Honestly, who cares if start and stop times are in the dump file? stderr
is where a DBA wants to see timings.

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