On Thu, 2025-05-29 at 20:51 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote: > Honestly, who cares if start and stop times are in the dump file? stderr is where a DBA wants to see timings.
I guess everybody has different preferences. These days, few DBAs stare at the screen, waiting for a report on the console when the job is done.
Unix has had stderr redirection for 35(?) years. Mailing lists are for small reproducers, not for 2MB of output from "real" backups.