Re: pg_dump --comment?

In article <40B69F86(dot)2020002(at)bignerdranch(dot)com>,
Chris Campbell <chris(at)bignerdranch(dot)com> writes:

> I've encountered a situation where I'd like to store some information
> about the database when I do a pg_dump. For instance, the timestamp of
> the dump. And some other information that I pull from the database.

> If pg_dump had a --comment flag that allowed me to pass a string that
> would be stored inside the dumpfile, that I could then retrieve in
> some way (without doing a full restore of the dump), that would meet
> my needs. In discussing this idea with other people, it sounded like a
> general-use feature that mankind as a whole could benefit from. :)

Why don't you just do

( echo "-- This is my comment"
pg_dump whatever
) > dumpfile

?