Re: why -Fdance archive format option works with ./pg_restore but not with ./pg_dump?

On 2025-01-25 Sa 8:12 AM, Srinath Reddy wrote:
> ./pg_dump postgres -Fp -f textdump
>
> ./pg_restore -Fp -d postgres textdump
> pg_restore: error: unrecognized archive format "p"; please specify
> "c", "d", or "t"
>
> ./pg_restore -d postgres textdump
> pg_restore: error: input file appears to be a text format dump. Please
> use psql.
>
> wouldn't it be nice if we get the error message as same as when we
> didn't gave format option and pg_restore finds the format
> using _discoverArchiveFormat there it suggests to try psql ,instead of
> saying "p/plain text" format is a invalid format,as we are doing
> currently in pg.
>
> thoughts?
>

Probably not exactly the same, because in one case you're explicitly
saying it's a text dump. But maybe something closer would work, like

   "text format not supported. Please use psql."

cheers

andrew

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