On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 01:10:26PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/app-pgdump.html > Description: > > Please consider entering a suggested name extension for pg_dump files in > custom format. For example ".pgdump". Nobody would have any doubts that this > is a database backup copy. Over the past 20 years, I have seen many times > that .dump files were treated by various administrators as some minor > temporary files. The abbreviation "PG", on the other hand, is quite > recognizable as PostgreSQL. And such less competent administrators, things > related to PostgreSQL do not touch and the backups will be safe.
This is an interesting idea, but perhaps pgdb.dump might be better. I agree db.dump isn't clear that it is related to Postgres. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
