Re: Backup, restore & pg_dump

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> What was the matter with the name pg_restore?

I didn't wanna be the one to ask, but I was kinda confused on that point
too ...

> > Since we may have a workable backup/restore based on WAL available in 7.1,
> > I am now wondering at the wisdom of creating 'pg_restore', which reads the
> > new pg_dump archive files. It is probably better to have pg_backup &
> > pg_restore as the backup/restore utilities.
> >
> > As a result do people have any objection to changing pg_restore to
> > pg_undump? Or pg_load?
> >
> > Any other suggestions would also be welcome.
> >
> >
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