On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 08:51:49PM -0400, Ron Johnson wrote: > The non-sense of putting start and stop times in the dump file while not > putting them in stderr must have caused my brain to skip over "to the dump > file". > > Honestly, who cares if start and stop times are in the dump file? stderr > is where a DBA wants to see timings. =$ date >&2; pg_dump …; date >&2 That's all you need. Whether pg_dump does what you want, or not, is not really important given how easy it is to fix the thing yourself. And the assumption that: "it doesn't do what *I* want, so it's non-sense", is slightly exaggerating commonality of your experience. Best regards, depesz
