severity 1053535 wishlist tags 1053535 + moreinfo thanks On Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:51:40 +0200, markus writes: >here is a patch to add support for timestamps with nanoseconds for dump >and restore ... >As a consequence dumpfiles (or -tapes) from previous versions >of dump are not compatible with the new version of restore.
i'm not at all convinced that this is a useful change, in particular in a backup/restore tool. please provide more information as to what benefits this change is expected to provide, and how those benefits are supposed to outweight the massive downside of complete incompatibility with existing backups. regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 2FCCF66BB963BD5F + https://snafu.priv.at/ "Mary had a little key,/She kept it in escrow/And everything that Mary sent/The Feds were sure to know." -- Sam Simpson
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