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From: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Mahendra Singh Thalor <[email protected]>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: Srinath Reddy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Non-text mode for pg_dumpall
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:34:25 -0700
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 04:09:13PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> here's a reversion patch for master.

>     This reverts parts or all of the following commits:

I briefly looked through this.  The biggest non-reverted part is, I think,
c1da728 "Move common pg_dump code related to connections to a new file".
Refraining from a revert of that one is defensible.

>     dec6643487b Improve pg_dump/pg_dumpall help synopses and terminology

> @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
>  static void
>  help(const char *progname)
>  {
> -	printf(_("%s exports a PostgreSQL database as an SQL script or to other formats.\n\n"), progname);
> +	printf(_("%s dumps a database as a text file or to other formats.\n\n"), progname);
>  	printf(_("Usage:\n"));
>  	printf(_("  %s [OPTION]... [DBNAME]\n"), progname);

I think commit dec6643487b, which e.g. decided to standardize on the term
"export" for these programs, was independent of $SUBJECT.

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