Re: Backup of entire servers and

Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> Devrim GUNDUZ a ecrit le 05/01/2007 17:55:
>> Hi,
>> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:47 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>>> Thoughts or ideas?
>>
>> Isn't it a better solution to add -f to pg_dumpall?
>>
>
> Adding -f to pg_dumpall will only made it available for 8.3, isn't it ?
> or we will have to handle our own pg_dumpall source code with this new
> option. It seems a bit hard to me.

Well, this code won't be released until 8.3 is anyway...

I imagine it's not there already because when passed to pg_dump, the
file will get overwritten every time. We'd need to add an append option
to pg_dump as well. which seems a bit ugly. At first thought I figured
there was more to it than that, but maybe not. I'll raise it on
pgsql-hackers and see what objections are raised.

Cheers, Dave.