Re: pg_dump -d

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:09:49AM +0000, Vincent Maury wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems pg_dump doesn't like -d option although it accepts --inserts. Same with -D and --column-inserts.
> I'm using pg_dump 8.4.1 on Ubuntu 9.10. I hope this is useful for you.
> Thank you very much,
>
> Vincent

pg_dump's options changed between 8.3 and 8.4, in order to help prevent
potentially catastrophic slowdowns when people mistook the -d and -D options
to mean "Connect to this database" rather than as equivalents of --inserts and
--column-inserts. See the documentation for more details:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/app-pgdump.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/release-8-4.html

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