Re: -f

option for pg_dumpall

On Friday 05 January 2007 09:40, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
> > In pgAdmin we use pg_dump's -f option to write backup files. The IO
> > streams are redirected to display status and errors etc. in the GUI.
> >
> > In order to enhance the interface to allow backup of entire clusters as
> > well as role and tablespace definitions, we need to be able to get
> > pg_dumpall to write it's output directly to a file in the same way,
> > because we cannot redirect the child pg_dump IO streams (which also
> > means we may miss errors, but I need to think about that some more).
> >
> > As far as I can see, adding a -f option to pg_dumpall should be straight
> > forward, the only issue being that we'd need to pass pg_dump an
> > additional (undocumented?) option to tell it to append to the output
> > file instead of writing it as normal.
> >
> > Any thoughts or better ideas?
>
> This seems a bit like piecemeal reform. Here are some things I'd like to
> see that affect this area:
>
> . merge pg_dump and pg_dumpall (e.g. add a flag to pg_dump that says do
> the lot)
> . multi-db non-text dumps
>
> And while we're about it, can we teach pg_restore to handle text dumps?
> Even if it just transparently called psql it would be nice.

+1 on on having pg_restore work with text dumps.

>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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