Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>   
>> I think this is pretty unwieldy.
>>     
>
> I agree.  Since any multiple-output-file case can't usefully use stdout,
> I think we should combine the switches and just have one switch that
> says both that you want separated output and what the target filename
> is.  Thus something like
>
>     --pre-schema-file = foo
>     --data-file = bar
>     --post-schema-file = baz
>
> where specifying any of these suppresses the "normal" output to stdout.
> So, if you give just a subset of them, you get just subset output.
>
> With this design, --schema-only, --data-only, and --file are obsolete,
> and we should probably throw an error if any of them are used in
> combination with these switches.
>
>
>   

this looks good. But arguably it's really pre-data and post-data. 
pre-schema would be something that comes before the schema, no? Or maybe 
it should be {pre,post}-data-schema-file.

cheers

andrew