Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

Simon Riggs wrote:
> 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
>   

seems reasonable.

cheers

andrew