Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: inconvenient compression options in pg_basebackup
Date: 2011-05-20 21:45:18
Message-ID: 1305927918.15895.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On fre, 2011-05-20 at 14:19 -0400, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > I suggest we add an argument-less option -z that means "compress",
> and
> > then -Z can be relegated to choosing the compression level.
>
> We can't just use -Z without a parameter for that?

You can't portably have a command-line option with an optional argument.

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