Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:29 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > --multidump-prefix=foobar
> > and it creates foobar.1.predata, foobar.2.data, foobar.3.postdata
> >
> > or something like that?  The number would help to sort them
> > appropriately, and the string would ensure that you know what each file
> > is ... perhaps we could have %-escapes in the name to expand to both of
> > these?  Perhaps we could have other %-escapes for things like database
> > name --- so you could say --multidump-filename=%d.%n.%t.dump ... but
> > then it would be nice to have strftime escapes too.
> >
> > Or is this too complex?
> >   
> 
> Yes, I think it is. We do not have to be infinitely flexible. KISS seems 
> apposite.

What syntax do you suggest?

How about we use the --file as the prefix?
and just use a postfix of .1 and .2 and .3

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