On 5/1/23 10:50, Scott Ribe wrote:
>> On May 1, 2023, at 9:25 AM, David G. Johnston<david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> The arguments about "the Unix way" seem to have forgotten the point about being silent except in cases of exception, and this level of detail already violates that premise.
> It would be a reasonable convenience. I think some of the pushback is from the framing that not having it is a defect.
Exactly. It's a convenience, the lack of which is easily worked around.
What would /really/ be useful are timestamps (both start and completion of
dump) and an easy association of ".dat numbers" with table names.
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