On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 08:51:49PM -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The non-sense of putting start and stop times in the dump file while not
> putting them in stderr must have caused my brain to skip over "to the dump
> file".
>
> Honestly, who cares if start and stop times are in the dump file? stderr
> is where a DBA wants to see timings.
=$ date >&2; pg_dump …; date >&2
That's all you need.
Whether pg_dump does what you want, or not, is not really important
given how easy it is to fix the thing yourself.
And the assumption that: "it doesn't do what *I* want, so it's
non-sense", is slightly exaggerating commonality of your experience.
Best regards,
depesz