On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 01:22:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2025 at 11:23:53PM +0530, tushar wrote:
>>> Is there any way we can generate some error messages?
>
>> Perhaps it'd be worth making pg_dump a little more cautious about
>> overwriting existing files (or at least have the option to avoid that).
>
> I think we'd get way more brickbats than kudos for that.
Yeah, I'm afraid you're right. We'd probably have to turn it on by default
to do any real amount of good, and there's undoubtedly someone depending on
the current behavior.
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nathan