Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 11:51 -0500, 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.

Looks good from here.

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