On 24 April 2016 at 23:49, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
> > Fixing that means using something more complicated than the old method > and that's a bit of a pain in psql, but that doesn't mean we should tell > people that the old method is an acceptable approach. > +1 Frankly, I don't find doing backups with psql this way interesting. I'm a bit astonished that anyone's doing it, really. Most of the time I'm doing anything more complicated than pg_basebackup I've got more flexible tools at hand than psql too. \gset should be a workaround for anyone who really wants to do this in psql for some reason. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
