Re: [HACKERS] pg_restore -d doesn't display output

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I have patched pg_restore to output the script contents if you restore
> > with -v:
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to overload the -v switch with it. A
> separate switch seems OK, but I don't quite get the point of this
> functionality, actually.

Oh, OK. When I was testing, I didn't realize that pg_restore doesn't do
anything unless you specify the database via -d, but I see it in the
docs now:

pg_restore can operate in two modes: If a database name is
specified, the archive is restored directly into the
database. Otherwise, a script containing the SQL commands
necessary to rebuild the database is created (and written
to a file or standard output), similar to the ones created
by the pg_dump plain text format. Some of the options con-
trolling the script output are therefore analogous to
pg_dump options.

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