On Feb 11, 2008 3:41 PM, Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 10:29 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > --multidump-prefix=foobar > > > and it creates foobar.1.predata, foobar.2.data, foobar.3.postdata > > > > > > or something like that? The number would help to sort them > > > appropriately, and the string would ensure that you know what each file > > > is ... perhaps we could have %-escapes in the name to expand to both of > > > these? Perhaps we could have other %-escapes for things like database > > > name --- so you could say --multidump-filename=%d.%n.%t.dump ... but > > > then it would be nice to have strftime escapes too. > > > > > > Or is this too complex? > > > > > > > Yes, I think it is. We do not have to be infinitely flexible. KISS seems > > apposite. > > What syntax do you suggest? > > How about we use the --file as the prefix? > and just use a postfix of .1 and .2 and .3
It seems better to me to have a suffix that suggests some sort of meaning. I'm not sure of the ideal names, but starting with: .pre-schema, .data, and .post-schema as possibilities seems like a route to get to possibly-better names... -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." -- assortedly attributed to Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Rita Mae Brown, and Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
