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From: Mark Stosberg <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:47:20 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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,

I think the specific test case would have to start with a valid letter,
like "t", and then include invalid characters. Try this instead:

 pg_dump --format=tx test

     Mark

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