pg_backup symlink?

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: pg_backup symlink?
Date: 2000-07-10 03:42:36
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20000710134236.009b8860@mail.rhyme.com.au
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Does anyone have a philosophical objection to a symlink from pg_dump to
(new) pg_backup?

The reason I ask is that with the new BLOB support, to do a proper backup
of the database one has to type:

pg_dump --blob -Fc ...etc

where --blob tells it to dump BLOBs and -Fc tells it to use the custon file
format, which at the moment is the only one that supports BLOB storage.

The idea would be for pg_dump to look at it's name, and make --blob and -Fc
defaults if it is called as pg_backup. These can of course be overridden
when binary blob load direct into psql is supported (maybe 'LO_COPY from
stdin Length {len}'?)

I know someone (Tom?) objected to symlinked files drastically changing
command behaviour, but this is not a drastic change, so I live in hope.

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