Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044C79FB2E8 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 63912-03 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:33 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041DC9FB411 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:43:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id l2JHhSS04401; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:43:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200703191743.l2JHhSS04401@momjian.us> Subject: Re: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump In-Reply-To: To: Mark Stosberg Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:43:28 -0400 (EDT) CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL123] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.069 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, BAYES_50, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200703/19 X-Sequence-Number: 4190 Mark Stosberg wrote: > It woud also be nice to document that the full names "custom" and "tar" are > supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity. > > ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing > an error. ) I don't see that with current CVS: $ pg_dump --format=x test pg_dump: invalid output format "x" specified -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +