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Peter Eisentraut asked: > Could you provide a less hand-waving specification of this feature? At > the moment it sounds like "This option does something fun, but we're > not sure what it is. Sure. Perhaps after I manage to convince Tom of its usefullness. :) I can expand on what "pretty" is and add a warning akin to the one for --tables. Tom Lane asked: > Why exactly is that a good idea? Seems like a foot-gun with marginal > usefulness. If you want to look at things "pretty", the psql \d > commands are the tool to use. Because sometimes all you have is access to the dump file, or because you want to save/view a historical record; in both cases it is very hard to actually read the input when it's crammed into a single line with minimal whitespacing. Since we already do make some concessions as far as making the dump file human-readable, offering this as an *optional* flag seems (mostly) harmless. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200701221450 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFtRV1vJuQZxSWSsgRAm4iAJ9lro5hvpbYHQB6fM06uH7wUHzLlwCgpamm wUpTmpqn4JbcEGsHmM1OTPQ= =HrpY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
