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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_dump verbose start and stop times?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 08:39:43 -0400
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On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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.

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