On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 02:23:03PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote: > On 3/23/21 2:06 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > We have the postmaster which can pass arbitrary arguments to postgres > > processes using -o. > > Right, and -o is already taken in pg_upgrade for sending options to the old > postmaster. > > What we are looking for are options for sending options to pg_dump and > pg_restore, which are not postmasters or children of postmaster, but rather > clients. There is no option to send options to clients of postmasters. > > So the question remains, how do we name this? > > --pg-dump-options "<string>" > --pg-restore-options "<string>" > > where "<string>" could be something like "--whatever[=NUM] [...]" would be > something unambiguous.
Sure. I don't think the letter you use is a problem. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.