Re: [DOCS] suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Mark Stosberg wrote:
> >> It woud also be nice to document that the full names "custom" and "tar" are
> >> supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity.
> >>
> >> ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing
> >> an error. )
> >
> > I don't see that with current CVS:
> >
> >     $ pg_dump --format=x test
> >     pg_dump: invalid output format "x" specified
>
> Bruce,
>
> I think the specific test case would have to start with a valid letter,
> like "t", and then include invalid characters. Try this instead:
>
>  pg_dump --format=tx test

Thanks for the report.  I have corrected this and the fix will be in
PostgreSQL 8.3.  Interestingly, we support non-documented option
"append" and "file" too.

Patch attached and applied.

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Index: src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c,v
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diff -c -c -r1.461 pg_dump.c
*** src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c    19 Mar 2007 23:38:30 -0000    1.461
--- src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c    22 Mar 2007 18:39:53 -0000
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*** 476,513 ****
      }

      /* open the output file */
!     switch (format[0])
      {
!         case 'a':
!         case 'A':
!             plainText = 1;
!             g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archNull, 0, archModeAppend);
!             break;
!
!         case 'c':
!         case 'C':
!             g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archCustom, compressLevel, archModeWrite);
!             break;
!
!         case 'f':
!         case 'F':
!             g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archFiles, compressLevel, archModeWrite);
!             break;
!
!         case 'p':
!         case 'P':
!             plainText = 1;
!             g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archNull, 0, archModeWrite);
!             break;
!
!         case 't':
!         case 'T':
!             g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archTar, compressLevel, archModeWrite);
!             break;
!
!         default:
!             write_msg(NULL, "invalid output format \"%s\" specified\n", format);
!             exit(1);
      }

      if (g_fout == NULL)
--- 476,508 ----
      }

      /* open the output file */
!     if (strcasecmp(format, "a") == 0 || strcasecmp(format, "append") == 0)
      {
!         /* not documented */
!         plainText = 1;
!         g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archNull, 0, archModeAppend);
!     }
!     else if (strcasecmp(format, "c") == 0 || strcasecmp(format, "custom") == 0)
!         g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archCustom, compressLevel, archModeWrite);
!     else if (strcasecmp(format, "f") == 0 || strcasecmp(format, "file") == 0)
!     {
!         /*
!          *    Dump files into the current directory; for demonstration only, not
!          *    documented.
!          */
!         g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archFiles, compressLevel, archModeWrite);
!     }
!     else if (strcasecmp(format, "p") == 0 || strcasecmp(format, "plain") == 0)
!     {
!         plainText = 1;
!         g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archNull, 0, archModeWrite);
!     }
!     else if (strcasecmp(format, "t") == 0 || strcasecmp(format, "tar") == 0)
!         g_fout = CreateArchive(filename, archTar, compressLevel, archModeWrite);
!     else
!     {
!         write_msg(NULL, "invalid output format \"%s\" specified\n", format);
!         exit(1);
      }

      if (g_fout == NULL)