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From: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
To: vignesh C <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: proposal: possibility to read dumped table's name from file
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 14:10:06 -0500
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 06:56:31PM +0530, vignesh C wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:03 PM Pavel Stehule <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I meant can this:
> >> printf(_("  --filter=FILENAME            read object name filter
> >> expressions from file\n"));
> >> be changed to:
> >> printf(_("  --filter=FILENAME            dump objects and data based
> >> on the filter expressions from the filter file\n"));
> >
> > done in today patch
> 
> Thanks for fixing the  comments.
> Few comments:
> + /* use "-" as symbol for stdin */
> + if (strcmp(filename, "-") != 0)
> + {
> + fp = fopen(filename, "r");
> + if (!fp)
> + fatal("could not open the input file \"%s\": %m",
> +   filename);
> + }
> + else
> + fp = stdin;
> 
> We could use STDIN itself instead of -, it will be a more easier
> option to understand.

I think "-" is used widely for commandline tools, and STDIN is not (even though
it's commonly used by programmers).  For example, since last year, pg_restore
-f - means stdout.

-- 
Justin





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