Re: pg_basebackup wish list

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I think there is some value in providing
>> .tar for -Z 0,
>
> I was thinking that "-Ft -Z0" is something like an alias of "-Ft".
> That is, the backup is taken in uncompressed tar format.
>
>> however in that case how should we define usage of -F p
>> -Z 0? Shall we say with plain format -Z 0 gets ignored or throw error
>> or do something else? If first, then I think it is better to mention
>> the same in docs.
>
> ISTM that it's better to ignore that case, like pg_dump -Ft -Z0
> doesn't throw an error.
>

Okay, then you can go ahead with your patch.

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