On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Philip Warner wrote:
At 12:13 AM 31/03/2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Yes, they have to check for a proper exit from pg_dump, but there is
still a file sitting around after the dump, with no way to tell if it is
accurate.
Why don't we write a hash into the header or
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This might seem a bit silly, but is there any chance we could add a
comment at the end of pg_dump text output that says '-- End of dump'?
Sure --- while you're at it, put a
Gavin Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
I like an end-of-dump marker for folks who want to check if the dump got
truncated somehow. I can see how to do that for text dumps, but what
about for tar or custom dumps?
Wouldn't it be more effective to test
Gavin Sherry wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This might seem a bit silly, but is there any chance we could add a
comment at the end of pg_dump text output that says '-- End of dump'?
Sure ---
At 12:13 AM 31/03/2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Yes, they have to check for a proper exit from pg_dump, but there is
still a file sitting around after the dump, with no way to tell if it is
accurate.
Why don't we write a hash into the header or footer. Then use something like:
pg_restore
I like an end-of-dump marker for folks who want to check if the dump got
truncated somehow. I can see how to do that for text dumps, but what
about for tar or custom dumps?
Wouldn't it be more effective to test for non zero return status as this
handles -Fc cases, etc, which would be non-trivial
This might seem a bit silly, but is there any chance we could add a
comment at the end of pg_dump text output that says '-- End of dump'?
Would make it useful for checking that you actually have a complete dump...
Chris
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Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This might seem a bit silly, but is there any chance we could add a
comment at the end of pg_dump text output that says '-- End of dump'?
Sure --- while you're at it, put a beginning of dump at the start.
Is it worth adding the database name
Tom Lane wrote:
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This might seem a bit silly, but is there any chance we could add a
comment at the end of pg_dump text output that says '-- End of dump'?
Sure --- while you're at it, put a beginning of dump at the start.
Is it worth
